\'I knew I Was Going to Write a Novel\' In April 1978, I was watching a baseball game in the Jingu Stadium in Tokyo, the sun was shining, I was drinking a beer.
I have never appeared on television, I have never been heard on the radio, I hardly ever.
Now I am compensating for the old, open life through my new, closed life.
I can still feel it in my heart.
It was a warm sensation.
And when Dave Hilton of the Yakult Swallows made a perfect hit, at that instant I knew I was going to write a novel. \'I knew I Was Going to Write a Novel\' In April 1978, I was watching a baseball game in the Jingu Stadium in Tokyo, the sun was shining, I was drinking a beer