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...Norwegian Wood, 1987 A runaway hit that sold in the millions globally, this book was especially popular in Asia. Two million copies were sold in Japan and 1 million in China; the book also spent 16 years on the best-seller list of Korea's top bookstores. Few writers have had such a huge pan-Asian following...
...Underground, 1997 The 1995 Kobe earthquake and the sarin-gas attacks on Tokyo's subway by the Aum Shinrikyo cult turned Murakami's thoughts back to Japan after almost seven years away. This non-fiction book was based on scores of interviews with former cult members and gas-attack survivors...
...stages - was not shaped by Japanese literature, but by the secondhand foreign paperbacks he read growing up near the port of Kobe, and the jazz and rock he absorbed as a student in Tokyo. Long before his self-imposed exile overseas, to avoid the crush of his celebrity in Japan, Murakami was an expatriate in his mind. "His work referenced not classic Japanese culture but pop culture, mainly from the U.S.," says Motoyuki Shibata, a professor of American literature at Tokyo University who has known Murakami for years. "He could create great literature with...
...Murakami has been embraced abroad as no other Japanese writer has. His books have been translated into about 40 languages. (In Japan, where Murakami is also regarded as an accomplished translator of American literature, the flow is neatly reversed: his recent rendering of The Great Gatsby sat atop the best-seller list for seven weeks.) Last October in Prague, he was awarded the prestigious Kafka Prize, dedicated to authors whose work "addresses the readers regardless of their origin, nationality and culture." It's difficult to imagine a better recipient than Murakami, who today splits his time between Tokyo and universities...
...detailed the steps the regime needed to take to live up to a pact it signed onto in the so called six-party talks in September of 2005. (The February agreement also laid out the diplomatic steps and economic assistance the other parties to the talks - the U.S., China, Japan, Russia and South Korea - were to take in return for the North's cooperation...