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Novelist Haruki Murakami and film director Pierre Foldes shake hands at the end of a talk session after a screening of “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman,” an animated film adapted from the Japanese author’s short stories, in Tokyo, June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi)

Noted Japanese author Haruki Murakami is happy with first animated adaptation of his short stories

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

FILE - Ginkgo trees are seen at an area known as Jingu Gaien in Tokyo, May 12, 2023. Japanese author Haruki Murakami spoke up against a controversial redevelopment plan at the heart of Tokyo's beloved historic and green district of Jingu Gaien that would tear down a nearly century-old baseball stadium that inspired him to become a novelist and his favorite running course. (AP Photo/Stephen Wade, File)

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

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Film director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, with actor Hidetoshi Nishijima and producer Akihisa Yamamoto, unseen, speaks during a news conference on their award winning film &quot;Drive My Car&quot; in Tokyo, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. Japan's &quot;Drive My Car&quot; has won an Oscar for best international feature. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Director of ‘Drive My Car’ surprised by Oscar, popularity

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2018, file photo, Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami signs his autograph on his novel &quot;Killing Commendatore&quot; during a press conference in Tokyo. Murakami said politicians need to reduce public uncertainty and fear over the coronavirus by speaking sincerely about the pandemic. Murakami, in a two-hour live New Year's Eve show on Dec. 31, 2020, urged political leaders to “talk honestly from the gut” to the people to encourage them to help slow rising infections which are on the verge of getting out of control. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Author Murakami hosts live jam for relaxation amid pandemic

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2018, file photo, Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami signs his autograph on his novel &quot;Killing Commendatore&quot; during a press conference in Tokyo. Murakami said politicians need to reduce public uncertainty and fear over the coronavirus by speaking sincerely about the pandemic. Murakami, in a two-hour live New Year's Eve show on Dec. 31, 2020, urged political leaders to “talk honestly from the gut” to the people to encourage them to help slow rising infections which are on the verge of getting out of control. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Murakami urges politicians to speak sincerely about virus

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Shinchosa, author Haruki Murakami, right, speaks on stage next to author Mieko Kawakami in Tokyo, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. A monkey that confesses he steals women's identity cards, causing them to temporarily forget who they are, stars as author Haruki Murakami marks 40 years since his debut as a novelist with his first public reading in Japan in nearly a quarter century. Now 70 and one of the world’s most popular and acclaimed novelists, Murakami debuted with “Hear the Wind Sing” in 1979, four years after he began writing while running a jazz bar in Tokyo. (Shinchosa via AP)

Murakami holds rare public reading to mark debut anniversary

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this July 17, 2019, photo, Natsuko Imamura, right, and Masumi Oshima pose with their books after Imamura and Oshima were awarded the Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes at a Tokyo hotel. Since 1935 the Akutagawa and Naoki have recognized serious and popular fiction, respectively, and provided their winners with a commemorative watch and 1 million yen (a little under $10,000). Even more valuable is the prestige its winners receive from media attention and, increasingly, a clear path to wider audiences through translation. (Kyodo News via AP)

Women, late-in-life new authors expand Japanese literature

By ALEX BARREIRA - Associated Press

Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami poses for photographers during a press conference at Waseda University in Tokyo Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Author Murakami talks about his library plan, writing, music

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami poses for photographers during a press conference at Waseda University in Tokyo Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Writer Haruki Murakami plans archive at Japanese university

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Murakami enjoys writing because he doesn’t know the ending

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this undated black and white photo provided by Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co., Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami poses at its radio station in Tokyo. Japanese best-selling author Haruki Murakami has hosted a radio show featuring some of his favorite songs for jogging and says writing novels to him is about rhythm, as in music and running. (Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co. via AP)

Author Murakami talks music, running, novels on radio show

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Men Without Women’

By Thom Murphy

People buy copies of the new book written by Haruki Murakami at a book store in Tokyo shortly after midnight, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. Murakami's new book &quot;Kishidancho Goroshi,&quot; or &quot;Killing Commendatore,&quot; is a two-part story about a 36-year-old portrait painter and the mysterious incidents that happen after his wife divorces him and he moves into an old house on a mountainside west of Tokyo. (Fumine Tsutabayashi/Kyodo News)

Fans in Japan rush to get Murakami book with esoteric title

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009, file photo, novelist Haruki Murakami of Japan makes a speech after receiving the Jerusalem's award during the International Book Fair in Jerusalem. Murakami's new book &quot;Kishidancho Goroshi,&quot; which means &quot;Murder of a Knight Commander,&quot; will hit Japanese bookstores on Feb. 24, the book's publisher, Shinchosha Publishing Co. said Tuesday. Overseas availability isn't yet known. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Murakami’s new book to be released Feb. 24 in Japan

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2009, file photo, Japanese novelist Haruki Murakamimakes a speech after receiving the Jerusalem's award during the International Book Fair in Jerusalem. Murakami warned against excluding outsiders and rewriting history as he accepted the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award. Murakami spoke on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016, in Odense, Denmark, the birthplace of the 19th century fairy tale writer. His speech titled &quot;The Meaning of Shadows&quot; cited Andersen's dark fantasy, &quot;The Shadow.&quot; (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Accepting award, Murakami warns against excluding outsiders

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Rinko Kikuchi is one of two young women with whom Ken'ichi Matsuyama has a difficult relationship in Director Anh Hung Tran's coming-of-age film "Norwegian Wood."

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Norwegian Wood’

By Peter Suderman - Special to The Washington Times

Director: Murakami took 4 years to approve movie

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Vietnamese film director Tran Anh Hung answers reporters questions during an interview with The Associated Press in Tokyo, Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. The director of an upcoming movie based on Haruki Murakami's book "Norwegian Wood" says it took him four years to win the Japanese author's approval to adapt the popular novel.(AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Murakami took 4 years to approve ‘Norwegian Wood’

By SHINO YUASA - Associated Press

Film based on Japanese novel debuts in Venice

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press