Drive My Car is the first story in Haruki Murakami’s short story collection, Men Without Women. This concise story may appear to be lacking in detail, but in fact it contains a variety of elements that allow the reader to develop their imagination.
The café in The Museum of Modern Japanese Literature serves dishes based on literary works including Hard-boiled Wonderland breakfast.
In the interview on Brutus Magazine, released today, he mentioned what triggered him to write Dance Dance Dance.
The Haruki Murakami Library is opened at Waseda University on 1 October, 2021. Here is how it looks from a fan’s viewpoint.
When Haruki Murakami writes his novels, he carefully writes the detailed settings one by one and constructs the characters accordingly. Although essentially fictional, his narrative is deeply intertwined with the place in which it is set, and as a result, composes a unique realism. 1Q84, set in Tokyo in 1984, is no exception. 1Q84 is […]
Setagaya Literary Museum in Tokyo is currently holding an exhibition on Mizumaru Anzai (1942-2014), an illustrator and best friend of Haruki Murakami. In addition to the numerous illustration works, the exhibition includes books of Murakami’s that Anzai designed. In 1980, an editor introduced Anzai to Murakami, who ran a jazz bar in Sendagaya. Since then, […]
Chungking Express is a 1994 Hong Kong film directed by Wong Kar-wai. captures the vibe of the people in a big city that Murakami’s novels portrayed.
Murakami’s latest book is ” My Good Old Classical Records “, released on 24 June 2021 in Japan. Murakami, known as a jazz record collector and for his deep knowledge of classical records, introduced 486 LP records in this book, covering 100 chapters; some are categorized by music, while some are by a conductor. Murakami […]
Murakami’s novels are known for their surrealism. Still, this surrealism does not exist independently but is further enhanced by the reality of the scenes and place names detailed in his novels. From the point of view of a local Tokyo resident who experienced the period in which the novel is set, the scenery and the […]
In 1974, at the age of 25, Haruki Murakami and his wife Yoko opened a jazz café, Peter Cat, in Kokubunji. At this point in his life, Murakami had not written a novel. No one could have predicted that this unspectacular town would become the setting for a popular novel that has sold 12 million […]