“As a novelist, my job is to play a role as an endoscope to look inside of a person, while also showing him or her with an external camera.”
As quoted in "Novelist Yu Miri: Olympics not helping Fukushima rebuilding" in ABC News (23 December 2020) https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/novelist-yu-miri-olympics-helping-fukushima-rebuilding-74877816
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