Abstract

Great words will give you the strength to live!
A “notebook of living words” that stays by your side and makes you stronger.

◆From the Introduction
By reading, writing, and reciting one line a day, you can build a strong core in your spirit. If you keep this up every day, you will develop the habit of looking forward. I hope you will encounter the living words of the wise and store up fuel for your motivation.

Author’s Information

Takashi Saito
Born in Shizuoka City in 1960. After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo and completing the doctoral program at the university’s Graduate School of Education, he became a professor at the School of Arts and Letters, Meiji University. His specialties are pedagogy, theories of the body, and communication. He received the Shincho Gakugei Prize for “Shintai Kankaku o Torimodosu” (Regaining the Bodily Senses; NHK Publishing). His 2001 book “Koe ni Dashite Yomitai Nihongo” (Japanese to Read Aloud; Soshisha) won the Special Prize of the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award; the series became a bestseller with 2.6 million copies and sparked a boom in interest in the Japanese language. He has written many other bestsellers, with total sales of more than 10 million copies.