Hirata first met Murakami and his wife Yoko in 1991 when they lived in ... s novels provide a solace for aging. “I think Haruki has the sense that we exist as a fragment of something, and ...

Renowned Japanese author Haruki Murakami expressed joy with ... Tokyo from an imminent second quake, his unenthusiastic younger colleague and his wife Kyoko, who — depressed and glued to ...