After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution. (Kenzaburō Ōe)

After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.

Kenzaburō Ōe

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