This item has been stored at home. The contents are in like-new, excellent condition, but it is old, so there is some minor aging of the cover. As shown in the image, there is a small tear at the top of the cover. We appreciate your understanding. To speak is to listen. That's why it resonates with the heart. Five essays before the earthquake, five essays after the earthquake, carefully selected. [Interviewees] Gen Kida - A Life of Detours Yoshiko Tatsumi - Paternity and Maternity Hiroyuki Itsuki - Enjoying Old Age Yoro Takeshi - The Ancient Layers of the Japanese Heart Tamami Katada - Beyond Personality Disorder Taichi Yamada - The Reconstruction of the Heart Shinichi Nakazawa - Rebirth from Impermanence Masaru Sato - Fukushima and Okinawa Shigeaki Hinohara - Knowing Enough Tetsuo Yamaori - Prayers for Nuclear Workers All are leading figures in their respective fields. I feel like I'm receiving a lecture, but that wouldn't make a conversation, so I interject with half-baked words. (Omitted) I don't quite understand how I've changed before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake, even when rereading it. I'll leave that to the reader's judgment, and I'll be happy that the stimulating conversations of these people are now available in a form that can be reread at any time. (From the preface) From Reviews A Conversation Collection by Mr. Soken Gen, Who Has Shed His Skin "Incomplete is Also Appreciated" (Soken Gen) A dialogue between ten intellectuals and Mr. Soken Gen, who suffered extensive damage in the Great East Japan Earthquake. This is his second collection of conversations, following "Tasho no En" (Many Lives' Connections). Mr. Gen has changed even further (according to Mr. Shinichi Nakazawa), and compared to his previous collection of conversations, it is more profound and full of suggestions, and it is a very insightful collection of conversations. I was surprised to hear that Mr. Sato's father may have been from Miharu, Fukushima, and was a parishioner of Mr. Gen. A Good Book Befitting the Second Year of the Great Earthquake I've been enjoying looking at sites that collect book reviews from various newspapers and adding them to my Amazon wish list. Among them, the first book I bought was a collection of conversations by Mr. Gen. As expected of Tokyo Shoseki, when I see that this kind of book is published, I think that Japan still has some hope. I've only glanced through it, but in the conversation with Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara, it seems that Dr. Hinohara was in the chairman's office of St. Luke's International Hospital during the Great East Japan Earthquake, and he thought, "The second Great Kanto Earthquake has come."