As soon as everyone is seated on the plane, the Japanese announcement welcoming us to the flight reminds me of the polite language I was taught as a child: always speak as though everything in the world were your fault. ..... Already, before the plane has left American airspace, I have landed in the country that I was born in but have been away from for such a long time, where I can never say what I feel or ask what I want to know.
――京都産業大学――2003年