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“I have always been able to remember everything about you from the side. Your profile, the way you walk, how you talk—that’s the way I always think of you. From the front, I can’t recall a thing. Strange, isn’t it?”
—Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Into the Forbidden Zone: A Trip Through Hell and High Water in Post-Earthquake Japan (Kindle Single)
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Paintings by Hiroshi Nagai.
instagram.comIt was the kind of expression Munch might have painted. Ushikawa’s
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Book 3 (2Q84 2)
HOW MUCH LONELINESS THE TRUTH CAN CAUSE
Haruki Murakami • Killing Commendatore: A novel
Yet even for Japan, the most prosperous site in Baselandia, success came at a cost. In exchange for its privileged position within the world economy, Japan surrendered a great deal of autonomy. It had to stand aside as the United States used Japanese land to launch Asian wars, spy on the Soviet Union, and store nuclear weapons, with all the dangers
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