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– Japan in the sense of a nation – is that it is becoming increasingly nationalistic,
and is starting not to listen to other opinions any more. (Nono 2001: 439) 33
It is precisely in this allusion to ‘respect for differences’ that we can identify all the profundity
and richness of Takemitsu’s relationship with ‘other’ musical realities. That diversity which,
as we said at the beginning, sparks off creative energies and is absorbed into his own musical
horizon as the dialectic expression of different concepts of identity. Because it is in the core of
the differences that the most profound bonds and identities of purpose are forged, for all the
homologation and equality which – in the artistic sphere quite as much as in that of human
relationships – we can perhaps hope remain purely utopian, coming to be seen as ‘undesirable
effects’: ‘More and more, East and West are being evaluated on equal terms. But we’re not
there yet: fundamental differences still remain’. (Takemitsu 1989a: 199)
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33 On the issue of nationalism, which meant a lot to Takemitsu, cf. also Contemporary Music in Japan (1989a:
198). Also in the conversation with Luigi Nono (2001: 439), Takemitsu delivered a significant warning: ‘I am
sincerely convinced of this: Japan, of which we are citizens, seems to be going in a direction which is straying
too far off course, and we artists have the duty to say: “Hang on a moment!”’.