"Baka-no Kabe" by YORO Tsuyoshi

Mr. Yoro was a former professor of medical science at Tokyo university. He insists that monotheism has spread in Japan instead of pantheism which had been the main thinking for a long time. The result appears as the lack of common sense. Everyone or every small society makes a wall, and the communication is lost between people belonging different societies. He calls the wall as 'Baka-no Kabe', or an idiot's wall. He suggests that we have to stop pursuing the individual character and have to working for the common sense!

This book is very easy to read, but let us think various things. So I think this book is very nice. Actually this book became a million seller if my memory is correct.

(Finished reading on Mar.10, 2008)


The more detailed Japanese version of this article is here!

Japanese character(s) (kanji)
* YORO Tsuyoshi : 養老孟司
* Baka-no Kabe : バカの壁