Die Welt

                                   It has been 25 years after the fall of berlin wall.

                                   When I visited here first time 1983, the city was separated at force,

                                   east to west, by the longer barrier which was suffocative to a foreigner.

                                   As tourists we could cross to east berlin through the checkpoint

                                   and should be able to return back to west berlin at midnight

                                   as a cinderella story out of grand ballroom .

                                   We were going to operhaus east berlin for viewing the magic flute of mozart.

                                   It was full of wonderful things, music, performance and people

                                   that is a theatre, full of passion with compassion such as pathos..

                                   I could remember when closer to midnight my wife and her friends should almost race

                                   to the gate altogether. it was a thrilling with the magic flute, even now.

                                   At my second visit to berlin, the wall to be grotesque was gone and the place

                                   in where I stood has seemingly been changed in its appearances.

                                   It was in 1989. A shockingly dispatched news it broke down made me get out of the feeling

                                   dreadfully obsessed in a reasonable time.

                                   I recited shortly "the cold-war is over", "the world steps forward for a peace more than ever".

                                   A certain number of people thought as me.

                                   It wasn't longer than I've been realized, however, there should be something wrong.

                                   Mideast, Balkans there were conflicts either racial or religious matters 

                                   of which are regretfully in dispute yet. Some have been engulfed to the terrorism

                                   aiming for whom many are innocent public of the other.

                                   As reminded it was a catastrophe to world trade center in ny 2001.  

                                   What a wish, we have been longing for better life and happines on earth.

                                   All the wishes, then, have been collapsed with the buildings, in the frozen site.

                                   the motiv of wall is always being with me as writer.

                                   A roman hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド 1985 

                                   is imaginary depicted for where nobody could come out of a village once came in, surrounded to wall.

                                   The main character of the wind-up chronicle ねじまき鳥クロニクル, 1994-95

                                   could be also transfered to unrealistic place, but being realistically, through the rock wall.

                                                                                                                                                photo: AFP

                                    In Feb. 2009, I received jerusalem prize of israel and spoke of my impression 

                                    by 'the wall and egg' what that is yet specified for many works. 

                                   The images of a thrown, easily breakable egg into the hard wall,

                                    led me to sigh of how weak we are here before the stone wall.

                                    I felt it so much as to be Gaza war thereabout.

                                    the wall is to be divided, to segregate an identity from one another.

                                    an authorities itself will have kept security on one's own side while having been inclinably disregared

                                    of a values to the other for its entity.  

                                    This is absolutely a national privileged logic sieged by walls. It has been getting worsen with armored,

                                    and shows as in berlin wall which was crossed a tragical-jubilant.

                                    the wall is to be much higher and much more stronger than we know.

                                    There should be embroidered with such numerous ideals as national, religious, intolerance,

                                    fundamentalism, immidiate profit seeking excluded off the humanity..

                                    possibly, (those are) inexplicable as well as indeterminable.

                                    I'm questioning the individuals of natural rights should rely on the system of governing biased.

                                    If we're opposed, even controlled to select the values of wall it should be breakable. 

                                    When writing I'm breaking through the border between present and absent, 

                                    conscious and unconscious. Even if defined as an egg, breakable against wall,

                                    I do not hesitate to talk about the other side of world beyond the wall.    

                                    I'll always stand on the side of eggs.

                                    It would be saying that is my intention sent for those who are much impressed of the book. 

                                    None of things has happened after reading, surely, the place remained, the reality surrounded..

                                    All is the same as the previous, supposingly, nothing has even solved for that.

                                    A sense, obviously, experienced elsewhere and waved unfamiliar, therein,

                                    all of  these are characteristics on literature. I am to be free and

                                    dreaming of realistic world transposably here.

                                    Those are the most precious for me, and I wish to resurrect being shared with my readers.

                                    Whomever can be imaginable for a peaceful world as john lennon's lyric.

                                    In reality which comes closely violent and sarcastic,

                                    it could have been considered such a hopelessness, weakness.

                                    It is difficult to find the ways, and needs to be sacrificed, occasionally.

                                    However, we couldn't give up for the wish of better world

                                    Even in desperately, people could say about borderless of their homeland.

                                    It might have been a starting point from which comes to be visible as well as tangible ahead.  

                                    2014 Berlin is, hereby, a useful place for mentioning a strength of freedom. 

                                    Also, I'll be with all the people being struggled to walls, especially, in hongkong china.