Oba Yozo in No Longer Human “Mine has been a life of much shame.“ “There are some people whose dread of human beings is so morbid that they reach a point where they yearn to see with their own eyes monsters of ever more horrible shapes.… Painters who have had this mentality, after repeated wounds and intimidation at the hands of apparitions called human beings, have often come to believe in phantasms – they plainly saw monsters in broad daylight…” No Longer Human: A Modern Tragedy “It was less the fact of Yoshiko’s defilement than the defilement of her trust in people which became so persistent a source of grief…