There is a very popular Japanese novelist named Haruki Murakami, and he has many fans around the world, including China. However, Haruki Murakami has two incomprehensible concepts: not eating Chinese food and having no children. It is said that he will have these two strange thoughts, which are all related to Murakami's father, Chiaki. What is the reason?
Haruki Murakami, born in 1949, is a native of Kyoto, Japan. As Murakami loves reading very much, Haruki Murakami also loves reading. His father encouraged him to like to read. Of course, reading comics and magazines is not allowed, only useful serious books. In this way, in 1975, Haruki, who was already full of literature, successfully graduated from Waseda University.
In 1979, 30-year-old Haruki Murakami won the 23rd New Humanities Award in one fell swoop with his first novel "Listen to the Wind". Since then, he began a career in literary creation. The words of Haruki Murakami seem to have a wonderful power, which can always attract people's attention.
especially in 1987, he launched his fifth feature-length work-"Norwegian Forest", and the result was a sales myth of 10 million copies. At that moment, the whole world was refreshed. Because of his success, scholars especially praised him as the "Murakami phenomenon." In the 1980s and 1990s, Murakami suddenly became a popular figure in the literary world, and was even expected to hit the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Murakami’s literature almost never involves politics. Chiaki Murakami was born in 1917. He joined the 16th company of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army in 1938 and invaded China with the army. Murakami Chiaki once told his son that he had executed Chinese soldiers before, but now he feels guilty.
Because of this, Haruki Murakami hated his father who was an aggressor ever since, and even developed to the point where he had not seen each other for more than 20 years. He did not forgive his father until his death in 2008. It is for this reason that Haruki also feels ashamed of the Chinese, so he does not eat Chinese food, and even has no offspring, because this will make him feel better.
In addition, Haruki Murakami has repeatedly hoped in public that more Japanese will face up to history and apologize for past aggressions. In 2015, Haruki once stated that it was a fact that Japan had invaded other countries and that an apology was necessary and shameless. Two years later, in his work "Assassination of the Knight Captain", he specifically imitated the complex psychology of his father.
Haruki Murakami has the courage to face history and admit his mistakes, so he has won the respect of the Chinese people and is a respected writer. In fact, history can no longer be changed. It is not correct to blindly avoid or deny it. It is commendable to be able to face up to mistakes and take the courage to bear.
