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Author: Haruki Murakami
First Published: 2000
Type of Work: Short fiction
Time of Work: February, 1995
Setting: Japan
Principal Characters: Komura, Shimao, Junko, Miyake, Yoshiya, Satsuki, Katagiri, Junpei, Sayoko, Sala
Genres: Short fiction
Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Dreams, Women, Loneliness, Disasters, Earthquakes, Fire, 1990’s, Japan or Japanese people, Southeast Asia, Frogs
Locales: Japan

In the early morning hours of January 16, 1995, a 7.2 earthquake hit the port city of Kobe, Japan, killing over five thousand people, causing billions of dollars worth of damage, and putting 300,000 out of their homes, including the parents of writer Haruki Murakami. Two months later, the radical Aum Shinrikyo cult carried out a gas attack on the subway system in Tokyo, killing eleven and crippling many others for life. Because of these twin terrors, Murakami, who had lived in the United States for several years, returned to Japan to research and write a series of newspaper articles on...

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