...Matthew C. Strecher Abstract With the publication of Kaze no Uta o Kike (Hear the Wind Sing; 1979), Murakami Haruki (b. 1949) found himself more or less at odds with well-known members of the Japanese literary establishment. If one takes Murakami at his word, this was not the result of conscious...

...Patricia Welch Dances With Sheep: The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki . By Matthew Carl Strecher . Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, no. 37. Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan , 2002 . xiii, 234 pp. $60.00 (cloth...

... away from the dominant notion of “culture as industry,” and explores animated personal responses to the fiction of Japanese writer Murakami Haruki in Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan through art house cinema, popular fiction, and online creative communities. The vogue for Murakami has swept across...

...Kodai Abe Abstract This article shows how Murakami Haruki's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95) constructs a historical narrative to overcome the victim/perpetrator dichotomy and demands ethical response from readers. Drawing on Marianne Hirsch's term postmemory , the author analyzes...

... welcome study that will have us all rethinking our assumptions about the dynamics of postwar Japanese history. MICHAEL GIBBS University of Denver Dances With Sheep: The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki. By M A T T H E W CARL STRECHER. Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies...

...Cecilia Segawa Seigle A Wild Sheep Chase . By Haruki Murakami . Translated by Alfred Birnbaum . New York : Kodansha International , 1989 . 263 pp. $17.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 161 documents themselves records...

...Richard von Glahn Shunjū Sengoku jidai seidō kahei no seisei to tenkai 春秋戦国時代青銅貨幣の生成と展開 [Genesis and development of bronze currencies in the spring and autumn and Warring States periods] . By Emura Haruki 江村治樹. Tokyo : Kyūko shoin , 2011 . 6, 472 pp. ¥15,000 (cloth). Chūgoku...

... literature at the University of Arizona and translator of contemporary Japanese literature, Ōe Kensaburō and Murakami Haruki among others, provides us with a book that goes against the grain of contemporary literary criticism. It deals, as the play on words in the title signals, with the way in which...

...Young Whan Kihl Kinnichisei to Manshu kōnichi sensō . [Kim Il Sung and the Manchurian Anti-Japanese War] . By Wada Haruki . Tokyo : Heibonsha , 1992 . 414 pp. ¥2,900. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 1038 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Equally important...

... be avoided in the document translations, but in the narrative some of the material relegated to notes might have been included in the text itself. Generally speaking, however, this a very fine and valuable work. JANET R. GOODWIN University of Southern California A Wild Sheep Chase. By HARUKI MURAKAMI...

... confront or perpetuate stereotypes of women, she is able to discern shifts in the current discourse about gender relations. M A T T H E W C. STRECHER identifies Murakami Haruki with a new generation of Japanese writers whose work stands in opposition to "pure" literature. He characterizes the essentially...

... interpreted as performative and thus again inauthentic. The book ends with a short epilogue that situates, in the line of texts discussed in the preceding chapters, more recent writers such as Murakami Haruki as also being concerned with questions of self-identity (or the lack thereof). The author...

..., each chapter explores different expressions and applications of the technological imaginary. Chapter 1 presents an intellectual history of Marxist thinker Aikawa Haruki and his contribution to the imaginary. Interestingly, leftists like Aikawa were some of the earliest and strongest contributors...

... become what Wada Haruki calls "Yugekitai kokka" (a guerrilla-band state). The origin and background of the anti- ...

...” from Murakami Haruki several times, the author is otherwise unmentioned. The reason for these lacunae is presumably obvious: these writers do not engage with the “fictions of Race and Blackness” that are the book's central and important focus. But leaving out any mention at all of these writers...

... their homophobia works to construct homosexuality as a "Western problem" and casts a new kind of Orientalism along an axis of sexual difference. Contemporary Japan, specifically its televisual culture and famed pop writers Murakami Haruki and Murakami Ryu, provide the subject of essays by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto...

..." buffer zone to protect Japan from Soviet Bolshevism but also to quash armed Korean-Russians who occasionally launched incursions into northern Korea, threatening the security of Japan's colony. Haruki Wada's chapter extends the coverage to 1937 when nearly 200,000 Koreans were forcibly removed to Central...

... as a way of rediscovering the "East." Her second line of thought explores the uses of the Taoist idea of a "Peachblossom Utopia" (togenkyo, a kind of Arcadia) by numerous contemporary writers, including Oe Kenzaburo, Nakagami Kenji, Murakami Haruki, Oba Minako, and Kono Taeko. These uses range from...

... at the back of the book). These authors include internationally known figures such as Kawabata, Abe, Akutagawa, and Oe; lesser-known but canonized writers such as Izumi Kyoka, Miyazawa Kenji, and Ishikawa Jun; popular writers of the likes of Murakami Haruki and Tsutsui Yasutaka; and virtual unknowns...

... is a simple but thorough chronological reconstruction of relations between Russia and Japan that may well have been placed at the start of the book as background for the neophyte scholar. Wada Haruki introduces the presence of the United States as an nonnegligible factor in the relations of the two countries...