Mishima's interview 5

Mishima: Ms. Fukuda, when young girls read my work, do you think they feel my work is indecent?

Girl: No, I don't think so. However, from what I have read, it seemed to paint women as weak. When I talked to my friends about it , I said "Aren't we stronger than that?"

Mishima: Well, I wrote a female main character who lives in Yoromeki as my ideal kind of woman, but some women got angry, saying "She is too weak!". Most women critics were saying things like this.

Girl: Maybe they're being hypocritical.

Boy: I wonder if women think at all?

Mishima: Hahahaha, that's no good. Fufufufuf, I hope you don't really feel that way.

Girl: Women think in their own way.

Boy: I think there is an opinion out there that women who lack the ability of thinking independently are fine as they are.

Mishima: You may not be wrong about that. However, I think there is a big difference between how men think and how women think. Women's thoughts are close to the earth and nature, while men's seem more separated from those two things. At first glance, men's thought are very clear, logic and organized, but those same thoughts are separated from the power of the earth and nature.



I may have changed the meaning of some lines where they were unclear. Interesting writing! Keep it up!

Mitchell