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...Today, there are a million titles in Maho i-Rando's online library - one for every six members, who are mostly women in their teens and 20s. That represents a lot of phone time. "Young Japanese access the Internet more from their cell phones than their PCs," says Misa Matsuda, a professor of literature and sociology at Tokyo's Chuo University. "Cell phones occupy pockets of spare time in people's daily lives - especially for exchanging nonurgent e-mails, playing games, visiting fortune-telling sites. Keitai shosetsu fit in that tradition...
...stories are often told in first-person narrative and lack diversity," agrees Matsuda. But that hasn't been a problem with consumers yet. "Why don't you write a novel and move me?" read one angry schoolgirl's recent online post, in response to a vehement keitai shosetsu detractor. So far, Japan's literary establishment hasn't come up with an answer...
...Dressing well is something intrinsically important to Asians," he says. "I remember for my grandfather's 80th birthday, my mother sent me out to buy something nice to wear, and I came back with a pair of Matsuda shorts and a Yohji Yamamoto jacket, and she told me to get a suit instead. 'It's not about you,' she would say. She always said dressing well is about being polite in society. It's about respecting others...
...Reviews have been mixed. Some critics found Kafka antifeminist and its sex scenes gratuitous. "Precisely because the writing is so good, its ... content worries me," the critic Yuzo Tsubouchi wrote in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. However, Tetsuo Matsuda, who reviewed it for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's best-selling broadsheet, praised the book as a profound philosophical rumination on the turbulent times afflicting Japan. "In any heavy storm, there are always writers who hoist a torchlight in front of people," Matsuda raved. "Murakami has been, and will be, taking that role. Whatever happens in the world, I will watch...
...development aid directly to China?far more than China receives from any other country. And in 1995, Japan set up the Asian Women's Fund, a semi-private charity to collect money for women forced into sexual slavery by the military. Still, even the fund's director, Mizuho Matsuda, remains unimpressed. "Japan has not done enough," she complains, "although it's incorrect to say Japan has done nothing...