Personal Life
Kobayashi, who regarded himself as a pacifist, was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. His way of resisting was to refuse promotion to a rank higher than private.
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“The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people. To ‘see the light’ too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)