"Which cities?" "I like all big cities." "I was born in Tokyo and I feel I'm more of a Tokyoite than Japanese." "I prefer to keep the sense that I've acquired because I was born in Tokyo." "Tokyo has no nationality." "People of my generation, who were born in Tokyo or another big city, often prefer not to have a specific nationality." "I like this feeling of not being responsible." "Why do I like Paris?" "It's hard to say." "Because of its chaos." "People don't care about anything." "I like cities like that." "And the air here is great." "It's always fresh and stings my face." "I like to walk around the city in this air." "When someone asks me which cities I like," "I tell them Paris and Tokyo." "If I am asked if I like people, and how?" "I have recently started to like the weaknesses and defects of people more and more." "Maybe that's what's called "being human"." "I have lived and worked so far wishing to try to express something to people, to express something to and for human beings." "I am doing it because I just want to say something to someone." "I don't know whether I like these people or not now, because I feel I can't be responsible towards people." "That is to say" "I think that, to express something, you want to be understood." "But sometimes I don't care if nobody understands me." "Don't you think it looks beautiful like this?" " That's all for today." " Thanks for your hard work." "Thank you." "He wasn't even a proper soldier." "He was conscripted, he was forced into the war against his will, and he died." "His friends were taken prisoner in Siberia." "When I read what they wrote..." "When I think about my father, who is dead the war isn't over for me." "There is no "after war" for me." "I think I am working on their behalf, to express what they could not." "I feel I have been given a task to do something for them." "In that sense, what I have been doing is merely accidental." "I feel that I have just been carried along." "When I consider all of this, I usually conclude that" "I am not just fighting for myself." "This is the continuation of something else." "Let's make doing this the top priority." "Cut this part and make the pattern." "This goes like this and then like this." "It definitely needs this around here." "It goes like this." "Down to this curved section." "You need this line here too." "Like this." "And this line here..." "This goes double..." "It goes this way..." "This goes round here." "It will be folded back, so it needs to be round." "Then if you hold the middle bit, and if you let it go, this happens." "The centre of gravity is here." "So this goes... here." "The neck goes here." "In other words, it should go here." "It should look as though Kimiura is wearing them." "I am not interested in the future and I don't believe in it." "Firstly, I don't trust the future." "I don't even believe in myself, in tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." "I only know myself" " I live in the present and dwell on the past." "That's all I know, all I understand." "To put it another way, the people in the present are standing beside a window between the past and the future and keeping the balance and living there." "But in my case," "I've always wanted to get older as quickly as possible and finish it all, just as quickly." "For me, the end is what's coming." "I don't feel that something will begin in the future."