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...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...
...takes a translator to know a translator, or at least so it seems in the case of author Haruki Murakami, Harvard Professor of Japanese Literature Jay Rubin, and visiting scholar and Professor of American Literature at the University of Tokyo Motoyuki Shibata. The three top professional translators are resident at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies this academic year. And they’ve taken the opportunity to get together to talk about literature and translation and to collaborate. Thus far, Shibata has collaborated informally and formally on translations with Rubin and Murakami, who calls...
While the Minsk was cruising off Japan last summer, Japanese photographer Mitsuo Shibata, flying in a rented plane, spotted Moscow's newest carrier and took this revealing set of aerial pictures near Miyako Island in the Ryukyus. With the Minsk he found the Petropavlovsk, a Soviet cruiser that carries a new type of missile apparently designed to shoot down cruise missiles...
...Japanese tend to gloss over the problem of alcoholism among women. What is known is that 42% of Japanese women-a rise of 18% from eight years ago-drink "occasionally." Japanese women, in fact, are becoming alcoholics faster than their menfolk. "Most women alcoholics are kitchen drinkers," says Yoko Shibata, a professor of medicine at Toho University. "With husbands at work and children in school, they drink out of loneliness and become addicted in six years, compared with ten years for men." Shibata adds that Japanese women tend to become manic-depressive, which only reinforces their habit...
...woman on the pilgrimage grasped the chain-link fence and recalled with tears in her eyes how she had done the same thing as a girl 30 years before, wishing she were on the other side. Another woman, Nancy Shibata, 43, was a teen-ager at Tule Lake, where she met her future husband. "I was young enough so that I didn't feel bitter," she remembers. Today the barbed wire causes more wonder than woe. "To look at it after you're out-I said, 'Gee, we stayed in a place like that...