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...legion of imitators dubbed "Murakami's children." In South Korea, where his books often hit best-seller lists, 50 volumes of his work have appeared in translation, including novels, short stories, travel pieces, essays and interviews. "Readers develop empathy for Japanese of their age through Murakami's books," writes Noriko Kayanuma, a professor of Japanese literature at Choong Euk National University in South Korea. "They realize that Japanese young people have similar sentiments, worries and problems." In the West, too, admiration is growing. "Is he the voice of our age?" asks Jay Rubin, a professor of Japanese literature at Harvard...
...also too late for Noriko Kamiie. She fled her Osaka home in July after her father scolded her for staying out late the previous night. Just after 10 p.m., though, Kamiie called her mother from her cell phone to say she was heading home. Twenty minutes later, she was pushed handcuffed out of a car on a major expressway 40 km away. Kamiie died of blood loss shortly afterward. In September, a 34-year-old middle-school teacher was arrested for her murder. Police said he had found the girl through a cell-phone dating club and had arranged...
...market drop echoed around the world. In Tokyo, Noriko Hama, a senior staffer at the Mitsubishi Research Institute, warned that "it could be very hard to stop" the Wall Street plunge from sending ripples through foreign stock exchanges. Tokyo's volatile Nikkei index fell 445.02 points last Thursday, its sharpest drop since June. The index rebounded 320.97 points on Friday to close at 35,116.02, down 93.33 for the week...
...products, for example, and has opened its construction market to foreign bidders. Japan imported 48% more U.S.-made computers and office equipment in 1988 than in the previous year, and 55% more semiconductors and telecommunications equipment. "A massive structural change has taken place in the Japanese economy," says economist Noriko Hama of the Mitsubishi Research Institute. "We are much more import-oriented than we were a couple of years...
...Noriko Kozai, violinist, in recital. Works of Franck, Mozart, Kreisler, Sarasate. Free. Wednesday, March...