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- JAOAN AND THE WEST -
Sanshirō by Natsume Sōseki: 4/5

Excerto com o tamanho perfeito, amei amei amei.

“Tokyo is bigger than Kumamoto. And Japan
is bigger than Tokyo. And even bigger than Japan…” He paused and looked at Sanshirò, who was listening intently now. 'Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don't ever surrender yourself - not to Japan, not to anything.”

- JAPAN AND THE WEST -
Behind the Prison by Nagai Kafū: 3/5

Uma ideia ou outra muito interessantes mas no geral, como um todo, achei fraquito.

- JAPAN AND THE WEST -
The Story of Tomoda and Mutsunaga by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō: 3.5/5

não foi mau, a história foi interessante e a escrita foi boa mas pronto, depois de ler certas short stories neste livro esta não me surpreendeu muito.

"- ‘Hey, Dad, what world are we in? Is it some world in between? ‘ - I didn't know what to say.
I repeated the boy's words in my mind: Some world in between…”

- DISASTERS, NATURAL AND MAN-MADE-
Weather-Watching Hill by Saeki Kazumi: 4.5/5

“Dad, look at how pretty the stars are. Honestly, all I could think was; who cares about stars at a time like this? But I looked up and the sky was bright with them. (…) I will never forget the beauty of the stars that night, when the whole city was blacked out. Those stars and the waxing moon were all we had.”

- DISASTERS, NATURAL AND MAN-MADE-
Weather-Watching Hill by Saeki Kazumi: 4.5/5

“With a pang, it occurred to me - there are some things you don't notice until they're gone.”

- DISASTERS, NATURAL AND MAN-MADE-
Weather-Watching Hill by Saeki Kazumi: 4.5/5

amei esta short story, amei o Beppu.

“Not that I really feel alive, though. More like I'm just pretending.”

“They had spun in the air because their world had become a living hell, because they wanted to become anything else besides what they were, as if they believed that to spin was to be reborn. If that joy was what this young man meant by “purity”, she understood what he was saying perfectly.”

“We thought we were using reason to bring about a revolution in society, but all we really wanted was to feel that our lives weren't useless, that we had purpose, had value; we were each trying to find ourselves but instead we ended up finding an "us". The content of the things we said or did didn't really matter. What was important was the feeling of "us".”

Pink by Hoshino Tomoyuki: 5/5

“I'm an adult now. Give me another chance! When Naomi's sister had asked what he meant by ‘adult’ he replied that he could now state his beliefs without fear even as the world looked unkindly upon him, (…) even if it meant putting his body on the line and that he would put everything on the line to protect himself and his family.”