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My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.
-Kenzaburo Oe
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My Observation Is That After One Hundred

Kenzaburo Oe
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.
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