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Play the Classic RPG That Inspired a Cult Icon on Switch Online ASAP

'Earthbound Beginnings' will feel very simple to the modern player, but manages to squeeze a lot of charm out of its simplicity.

Inverse

Where to start with: Haruki Murakami

The acclaimed Japanese author’s deceptively simple writing combines fantasy and reality in stories of everything from missing cats to dystopian histories via fantasy thrillers and meditations on love. Then he told us about running

The Guardian - UK

Chris Hewitt: Some bestsellers, like 'Lessons in Chemistry,' deserve the love they get from readers

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‘Tokyo would lose its soul’: anger over plans to redevelop historic city park

Campaigners say turning Meiji Jingu Gaien into a commercial hub will destroy 1,000 trees and area’s architectural heritage

The Guardian - UK

Haruki Murakami pleads for keeping Tokyo park and baseball stadium that inspired his writing

Author Haruki Murakami says he's strongly opposed to the redevelopment of a Tokyo park district that would remove his favorite jogging path and tear down the baseball stadium where he was inspired to become a novelist

The Independent UK

The best films of 2023 so far

Cate Blanchett’s unravelling conductor, Spielberg’s semi-memoir and the stop-motion tale of a shell wearing shoes all feature in the pick of the year released in the UK to date

The Guardian - UK

Author Haruki Murakami says pandemic, war in Ukraine create walls that divide people

Japanese writer Haruki Murakami says walls are increasingly built and dividing people and countries as fear and skepticism flourish following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic

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Bestselling Japanese author Haruki Murakami wins Spanish Asturias prize for literature

Bestselling Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has won this year’s Princess of Asturias Award for literature

The Independent UK

Japanese fans snap up first Murakami novel in six years

Tokyo (AFP) - Dozens of excited Haruki Murakami fans queued outside a bookstore in Tokyo on Thursday for the midnight release of the world-renowned author's first novel in six years.

AFP

In new book, Murakami explores walled city and shadows

Haruki Murakami wrote a story of a walled city four decades ago

The Independent UK

Manga-nifique! How France became obsessed with Japanese anime

In the 1970s, giant robot cartoons sparked a love affair with French fans (including Emmanuel Macron) – now the country is the world’s largest manga importer, and home to a new Murakami film

The Guardian - UK

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman review – Murakami’s surreal tales around a Tokyo earthquake

The seductively quirky sad-serious tone of the author is evident as a constellation of characters try and save the city – including a lost cat and a giant talkative frog

The Guardian - UK

Murakami's 1st novel in 6 years to hit stores in April

A new Haruki Murakami novel will be published in April and the publisher is saying little about it except that the Japanese manuscript is around 1,200 pages and the plot involves “a story that had long been sealed.”

The Independent UK

Murakami's first novel in 6 years to go on sale

The first novel by author Haruki Murakami in six years will go on sale on April 13, publisher Shinchosha Publishing Co. announced on its website on Wednesday.

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Murakami to publish first new novel in six years

Tokyo (AFP) - Celebrated Japanese author Haruki Murakami will release his first new novel in six years this April, publisher Shinchosha announced on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The End Of Nightwork by Aidan Cottrell-Boyce and Alone With You In The Ether by Olivie Blake.

The Guardian - UK

Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami review – lessons in simplicity

The Japanese writer lets readers inside his own head in an insightful collection of essays on his work and methods

The Guardian - UK

Novelist As a Vocation by Haruki Murakami review – the secrets behind the literary phenomenon

The celebrated novelist offers insights into his ways of working, his direct style and the moments that shaped him in this intriguing book on writing

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Jazz legend Yamashita reprises 1969 'gate-crash' concert

Jazz pianist Yosuke Yamashita performed at Waseda University on Tuesday, reprising a concert he gave there during a student riot in July 1969.

The Independent UK

Director of 'Drive My Car' surprised by Oscar, popularity

Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi says he was surprised by the international popularity of his Oscar-winning film “Drive My Car,” but attributes it to the universality of the short story by Haruki Murakami on which it is based

AFP

'Drive My Car': Murakami adaptation by rising indie star wins Oscar

Tokyo (AFP) - Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "Drive My Car" is not your average road movie, instead taking viewers on a poignant three-hour journey into the psyches of two characters haunted by the past.

The Independent UK

Murakami plays antiwar songs on radio to protest Ukraine war

Playing James Taylor’s “Never Die Young” and going back to songs that marked the antiwar movement in the 1960s, Japanese author Haruki Murakami added his voice to protests against the war in Ukraine with a special edition of his Tokyo radio show

Los Angeles Times

How Ryûsuke Hamaguchi adapted three stories and a play to create 'Drive My Car'

LOS ANGELES — Japanese auteur Ryûsuke Hamaguchi adapted a roughly 40-page Haruki Murakami short story into a fully realized, seamless three-hour film, "Drive My Car." But it was much more involved than that: He actually took material from three Murakami stories, and within that adaptation, he included significant passages of…

The New Daily

Film review: Drive My Car is about letting go of secrets and finding forgiveness

Dreamy and exceptional, 'Drive My Car' opens with the recurring obsessions of author Haruki Murakami, on whose short story it is based.

ABC News

Drive My Car, the first Best Picture Oscar nominee from Japan, spins Haruki Murakami story into affecting melodrama

This introspective and lyrical melodrama from Japanese director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi centres on a grief-stricken middle-aged theatre director who, reeling from his marriage breakdown, forms an unusual friendship with his aloof young tomboy driver.

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