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It is said that prisoners often have dreams about factory duty. But mine, even now, seem limited to my days on the run… (August 29, 1999)

Some people say that the tempo of social life is proportional to the level of the country's key industries. Accordingly, in agricultural countries, social life is established according to the transition of time: plowing farmland, sowing seeds, and harvesting crops. While in industrial countries, the daily norm is based on the degree of modernization, with increments of hours, minutes, and seconds. Japan is shedding its heavy and large industrial structure and shifting its center of gravity at each tick of the clock to the electronics industry, which is becoming increasingly high-tech. Since the quality of labor in key industries is becoming similarly modulated, it can be said that our society lives under the ticking of the second hand. (January 16, 1995)

U visited me on December 8! When she came in wearing a Dracula mask, the security officer told her to take it off. On her way out, she held a brief poetry reading for me. I was the only one there to listen, but she waved her arms up and down, exclaiming, "You may be beaten down, you will not be defeated! This is courage, and your spiritual freedom is a treasure that can never be taken away." (December 12, 1985)

People often misunderstand the inside of the prison walls as a place of repentance and rehabilitation of criminals, but there is no such system any-where. The purpose of the system is forced labor. (August 29, 1999)

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