"I cannot connect hope to the future of Japan. I increasingly feel that if things continue as they are, 'Japan' will cease to exist. Japan will disappear, and in its place, a mechanistic, empty, neutral, grayish, affluent, unscrupulous, economically powerful nation will remain in a corner of the Far East. I no longer feel inclined to speak with those who think it's okay like that. I have become indifferent to them. Yukio Mishima."