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Article: Notes From the Underground: Novelist Haruki Murakami writes surreal global best sellers that tackle the history and horrors of Japan.(BOOKS)(Arts and Entertainment)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- April 30, 2001
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Haruki Murakami has brought flowers to the Kasumigaseki subway station. Located in the heart of Tokyo's government district, this is one of the city's busiest stations. But what strikes a Westerner accustomed to the jostling chaos of American subways is the almost surreal orderliness of the place. People queue up at appointed places. Trains arrive at precisely scheduled times a few minutes apart. Uniformed attendants are posted throughout the gleaming, well-lit station--a dependable oasis of rational order in the hectic urban whirlwind that is modern Tokyo. So you can imagine the terror that broke out on March 20, 1995, when members of Aum Shinrikyo, an extremist ...
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Article: Midnight to Sunrise With Murakami.
The New York Observer (New York, NY);
May 15, 2007 ;
700+ words
...AFTER DARK By Haruki Murakami Alfred A. Knopf, 191 pages, $22.95 Haruki Murakami works wonders with daytime ... s very best books--Dance Dance Dance (1988 ... Not to harp, but Mr. Murakami used to do better than ... Up Bird Chronicle and Dance Dance Dance both had ...
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