Tokyo has been a subject of literature for centuries, and continues to inspire writers today. These ten fiction and non-fiction works...
Ryu Murakami
It’s been a difficult year — one that felt like humanity was living on a fracturing ice shelf. That uncertainty...
Andrew Lee reviews the Murakami novel in The Japan Times Ryu Murakami is known for the sex-drugs-and-violence style of his...
A subversive thriller about a North Korean invasion of Japan is laced with black humour: A Larman in The Guardian...
Japan is a safe, polite society in which occasionally hyper-violent crimes are committed that shock the world. They do not...
Review of From the Fatherland, With Love, By Ryu Murakami, trans. Ralph McCarthy, Charles de Wolf and Ginny Tapley Takemori...
Banks have failed, the yen has fallen and Japan's economy has collapsed, leading to political turmoil. Its great ally, the...
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