Talk:Haruki Murakami

message: I wonder if this section is at all necessary, is it notable? I think that its probably unnecessary, and could be deleted. I dont think a list of his translators is helpful to understanding Murakami, its just extra clutter. A list of the languages his books has been translated to, but maybe not the translators. We dont put up other associated support staff typically on wikipedia articles Ottawakismet (talk) 17:40, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree and have removed the section. Not only did it seem unnecessary, but it's also been unsourced for years. Sro23 (talk) 20:09, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translators 

message: There are no sources in the section about HM's personal life. If it is true that he likes jazz and crime novels, there are probably some interviews where he says so. If not, I will remove the text altogether. Anyone who knows any good interviews where HM talks about his personal life? --Soren84 (talk) 13:53, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal life: lack of sources 

message: When I checked here a couple of months back there was a much better foto of Murakami (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HarukiMurakami.png). Why was this picture removed? The new one looks terrible. The colours are all oversaturated, the image quality is very low and it certainly doesn't show Murakami from his best side. Since there don't seem to be any license problems either, I decided to restore the old picture.--77.20.240.17 (talk) 18:36, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Foto 

message: Shouldn't this be at Haruki Murakami? That naming order gets more hits. WhisperToMe 06:23, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name Order 

message: The image of his signature is upside down.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.70.147.73 (talk) 23:56, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Signature 

message: Which novels form the "Trilogy of the Rat"? The Rat appears in "A Wild Sheep's Chase" and "Dance, Dance, Dance", but the latter isn't mentioned here.
* Those are the second and third books in the trilogy. The first novel in the trilogy (and his first published novel) is Hear the Wind Sing. It hasn't been translated into English. Owen Jones 13:25, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trilogy of the Rat 

message: Tony Takitani - new movie based on Murakami story. --Yonkie 00:33, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  to be added to article: 

message: A short story collection called "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman" is due to be published next year. As of 1 January 2006, Amazon gives publication dates of 6 July 2006 (Amazon UK, Publisher: The Harvill Press, ISBN: 1843432692), and 29 August 2006 (Amazon US, Publisher: Knopf, ISBN: 1400044618). Davebook 12:08, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, see also Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman for the same list and some information on this rather eclectic collection of short stories.  As all 5 short stories in 東京奇譚集 are included in BWSW, it does indeed seem doubtful that it would be translated separately.  It also brings into question how the bibliography is arranged, as The Elephant Vanishes also does not correspond with any original Japanese publication, while there are some Japanese publications included that either have not or will not be published in English, at least not in the original form (as mentioned, 東京奇譚集 has been lumped into BWSW, After Dark has not been translated, neither has やがて哀しき外国語 to the best of my knowledge).  Perhaps a complete bibliography of original works should be followed by a bibliography of works translated into English? CES 05:51, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman 

message: I'm just now reading my third Murakami book in a row, having read 3 or 4 previously, and I'm noticing some trends that I'd like to collect:
*Buildings with randomly numbered rooms: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
*Cat with bent tail and no name is named after a type of fish: A Wild Sheep Chase, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
*Character who speaks without making sound: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore
*Teenage female friend of protagonist: Dance, Dance, Dance, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore
*Wells: Norwegian Wood, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
*Whiskey, often Cutty Sark
:Cats are definetly a recurring theme in Murakami's work. See also Kafka on the Shore. And the man-eating cats in Sputnik Sweetheart. Though it may be a bit general, I think the fairly constant references to music (popular and classical) and other literature in dialogue, which often work as analogies, are worthy of mention, too. BigglesTh9 00:39, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recurring themes 

message: Perhaps we could separate out the film bit and add something about Murakami related theatre productions: last year, I went to see a production of "The Elephant Vanishes" at the Barbican, London, which was three short stories from the collection of the same name (Sleep, The Second Bakery Attack and The Elephant Vanishes). It was a collaboration between Setagaya Public Theatre and Complicité after a successful run in Japan the year before (if I recall correctly). At any rate, it was really rather good. I also heard there's another production (of another story) going on in the US at the moment, but I don't know that much about it. zenpea 07:15, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that it would be nice to have a separate heading for "Film and Theatre," or for "Adaptations in Other Media," perhaps, or just "Adaptations."  I was also lucky enough to see The Elephant Vanishes, on this side of the pond at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York in 2004.  It played for just five performances, a typically limited festival run, but I thought it was just awesome.  They brought it back to the States briefly (a year ago?) to play at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and a friend of mine, who had already seen it in New York, drove all the way from Chicago in order to watch it again.  I haven't heard about this other Murakami production, but I will keep an eye out for it.  In the meantime, I've added a couple of paragraphs about the Complicite adaptation to The Elephant Vanishes article.  I'll go ahead and add a couple of lines to this article as well.76.168.253.250 23:42, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Film and Theatre 

message: I found the biography section to be overly long and hard to follow, so I broke it into sections.  I'm not completely happy with it yet, but it's a start. --Mr Wind-Up Bird ✈ 17:30, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  broke bio into section 

message: The bibliography was a hodge-podge of works that had and had not been translated into English, of varying genres ... I changed the format to a table that will hopefully make it a little clearer what Murakami originally wrote and when, as Japanese and English release dates/formats differ rather dramatically.  I did not include the dates of when the works were translated into English nor the translator, but that would certainly be a worthwhile addition.  There are also more works that could be mentioned, but for now, I think I got just about everything that's been translated into English.  I'm sure there are mistakes here and there (hopefully nothing major) but hopefully this is a good start. CES 02:21, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography 

message: The short stories section is quite long.  I would recommend splitting it off into a new article which would also list the collections that have been published along with all the short stories.  Please discuss (here) your feelings about this.  Skumarla 05:06, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that it's long, but if the new article would only be this same list of stories and nothing else, I say keep them here.  The list is at the very end of the article and makes for a handy one-stop reference. CES 23:24, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Should the titles of the short stories appear in quotation marks, rather than italics, to distinguish them from his novels?  This seems more in keeping with most Manuals of Style  as well as the precedent set by other Wikipedia articles like Nine Stories (Salinger).76.168.253.250 23:45, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that they should be in quotes - that is the recommendation here – Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28titles%29 Skumarla 07:09, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll go ahead and make that change to the "Selected Short Stories" section.  ("Selected Non-Fiction" I will leave as it is, since both Underground and The Place That Was Promised were published as individual complete works in Japan prior to being collected in a single volume in the UK.)76.168.253.250 20:15, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split off short stories? 

message: He didn't study Greek drama but film at Waseda University (some author affiliations are misinformating). Murakami wrote so in his Japanese essays which are not translated into other foreign languages. It seems that this misinfomation comes from the story, Norwegian Wood. Murakami sometimes read filmscripts at the Theater Museum of Waseda when he was a student. At first, he had decided to go to Waseda because there were few faculties to study film at the time. cf. A series of Murakami's house of the rising sun (村上朝日堂/Murakami-asahi-do).--82.226.174.53 02:49, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Murakami's study at Waseda University 

message: Why is Stephen King listed as an influence?  I don't agree with that...
It is. Not only he said it in some interview but also according to many authors opinion is work is influenced by Stephen King like most of the new most famuos Japanese writer like Ryu M. and Banana Yosh.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.202.164.116 (talk) 00:09, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Murakami's Influences 

message: "an oft-repeated story" - Time mag. (Aug. 20, 2007, p. 45 actually quotes the author in re-telling this story. Kdammers 01:51, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  His start in writing 

message: :Image:Wild Sheep Chase.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
If there is  other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page.  Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.
BetacommandBot 18:47, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Wild Sheep Chase.jpg

message: :Image:Wind-up Bird Chronicle.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
If there is  other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page.  Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.
BetacommandBot 20:56, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Wind-up Bird Chronicle.jpg

message: To the best of my knowledge, "South of the Border" is actually a Frank Sinatra song, even though it's attributed to Nat King Cole in the book. Can anyone confirm that it was ever sung by Nat King Cole? I don't know exactly how to go about changing this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.228.220.248 (talk) 00:41, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Nat King Cole certainly did do a version of it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.90.238.169 (talk) 10:21, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Are you sure? What record was it on? I haven't been able to find it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.184.211.170 (talk) 07:52, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've never heard his version of it, but I'm sure Cole recorded the song; it was a standard, after all. That being said, it doesn't matter as far as the article is concerned; we're only worried about what the novel says. :) faithless (speak) 08:37, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  South of the Border 

message: Mainichi Shimbun has been running interviews with Murakami for the past five days. I've been tempted to add them, but it would be a lot, and the article already has quite a few external links. If any of the regular editors can use them: HERE is today's, and the rest are linked at the bottom of the article under "Related articles." Hope it helps! Dekkappai (talk) 16:28, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mainichi interviews

message: I was just perusing around Amazon and I saw three different versions of Murakami in Spanish called Tokio Blues and came in three different versions: Just Tokio Blues, Tokio Blues and Norwegian Wood, and Tokio Blues: Norwegian Wood. Is this a version of Murakami's Strange Tales of Tokyo of is this the title of Norwegian Wood in Spanish?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darthjarek (talk • 
Those are all translations of Norweigan Wood. Frequently it is translated with this title in Mexico and Spain.
contribs) 00:47, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tokyo Blues 

message: I really hate to say this but the scan of his autograph is upside down. Unless this is some kind of stylistic statement maybe someone who is more skilled at this wikipedia editing jazz can fix this  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.164.39.42 (talk) 07:29, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: For some reason it's the same on ja.wiki. While you could assume that someone just mistook up and down when we're talking about the English wikipedia, it's a bit harder to do so for the Japanese one, so I'm assuming there is some reason for the flipped signature. Or maybe the people over at ja.wiki are assuming there is some meaning to the flip, since that's how it's placed over here ;) TomorrowTime (talk) 13:58, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Autograph 

message: This entry has long claimed:
His work has been described by the Virginia Quarterly Review as "easily accessible, yet profoundly complex".
As the web guy for the publication in question, I've seen this on his entry for months (years?), and I just today noticed that the claim is unreferenced. So I figured I'd track down where we'd said that. And, it turns out, we've never published an article making such a statement. Our archives from 1975-2009 are all available online, including every last article, and we've only mentioned him three times, twice in passing, and once a paragraph-long review of one of his books that does not use the phrase in question.
So I've excised that claim from the intro to Murakami's entry. I suppose it's possible that we once said that about Murakami, and that it's just missing from our online archives, but short of any such evidence along those lines, let's leave this quote out of the entry, shall we? --WaldoJ (talk) 15:30, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Easily accessible, yet profoundly complex" 

message: Hi, the standard formatting of works lists only story, essay and poetry collections rather than individual works, because often, as here, there are so many pieces. I would suggest reformatting the article, saving space and adding clarity. Span (talk) 02:10, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Formatting of works

message: This sounds odd and I think it should be removed. That's like saying on the Fellini page, "one of the best known Italian artists since Leonardo Da Vinci." It just sounds odd and very unencyclopediac. Perhaps one of the best known Japanese writers worldwide since Mishima, that might be more appropriate.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.119.233.105 (talk) 05:46, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "One of the most notable Japanese artists since Akira Kurosawa" 

message: As I understand, there are many short stories published in Japan that are yet to be translated and/or collected in English. Is there a comprehensive list of these? It should be added. Jmj713 (talk) 20:00, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uncollected fiction 

message: Re:
The book was printed in two separate volumes, sold together, so that the number of books sold actually doubled, creating the million-copy bestseller hype.
(in Wider recognition section)
* This is not a one-off trick to double sales figures. Selling books in two separate volumes is commonplace in Japan. The main reason is the convenience of carrying smaller books on public transport.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.69.13.180 (talk) 06:21, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wider recognition section:  "The book was printed in two separate volumes..." 

message: Behind Murakami’s Mirror DECEMBER 8, 2011 New York Review of Books by Charles Baxter 1Q84
by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel.''
99.181.147.68 (talk) 03:02, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  resource regarding [[1Q84]] 

message: :
If “contemporary” here means ‘living’, isn't that implied by “is”? Or, on the other hand, if he dies today will he still be “contemporary” tomorrow? —Tamfang (talk) 08:48, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Seeing no comments in 2+ months, I'll remove the adjective. —Tamfang (talk) 22:06, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  contemporary with what? 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 7 external links on Haruki Murakami. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3600566/Tales-of-the-unexpected.html
*Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3b3cf834-089e-11db-b9b2-0000779e2340.html?ft_site=falcon&desktop=true
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20091014141137/http://meanjin.com.au/spike-the-meanjin-blog/post/murakami-round-up-ichi-kyu-hachi-yon/ to http://www.meanjin.com.au/spike-the-meanjin-blog/post/murakami-round-up-ichi-kyu-hachi-yon/
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120924080418/http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/china/AJ201209220047 to http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/china/AJ201209220047
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120928224206/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Books/Chunk-HT-UI-BooksSectionPage-LiteraryBuzz/Author-Murakami-wades-into-Japan-China-island-row/Article1-937028.aspx to http://www.hindustantimes.com/Books/Chunk-HT-UI-BooksSectionPage-LiteraryBuzz/Author-Murakami-wades-into-Japan-China-island-row/Article1-937028.aspx
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140808043831/http://ajw.asahi.com/article/special/HARUKI_MURAKAMI/AJ201312150006 to http://ajw.asahi.com/article/special/HARUKI_MURAKAMI/AJ201312150006
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080719134330/http://en.con-can.com/watch/preview.php?id=20085028 to http://en.con-can.com/watch/preview.php?id=20085028
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 22:56, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 2 external links on Haruki Murakami. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20130911045640/http://www.granta.com/Archive/124/A-Walk-to-Kobe/1 to http://www.granta.com/Archive/124/A-Walk-to-Kobe/1
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20070926054054/http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/taiwan/fujii.pdf to http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/taiwan/fujii.pdf
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 01:06, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 4 external links on Haruki Murakami. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://archive.is/20170525003713/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3b3cf834-089e-11db-b9b2-0000779e2340.html?ft_site=falcon&desktop=true%23axzz4i2pzDZU2 to http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3b3cf834-089e-11db-b9b2-0000779e2340.html?ft_site=falcon&desktop=true
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20081222213437/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080801.wmurakami02/BNStory/Entertainment/home to https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080801.wmurakami02/BNStory/Entertainment/home
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20160816144823/http://garev.uga.edu/ArchiveFiles/murakami.pdf to http://garev.uga.edu/ArchiveFiles/murakami.pdf
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080430051938/http://www.japannewsreview.com/society/kansai/20070705page_id=344 to http://www.japannewsreview.com/society/kansai/20070705page_id=344
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 22:23, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified (January 2018) 

message: I believe that the Rat series is a four-part series that ends with Dance, Dance, Dance. It has the same narrator (Boku), a continuation of the narrator's story, and in the end he meets the ghost of the Rat, who helps him to wrap up the narrative arc. 
There is no reference for the assertion that it is only a "trilogy". I think it is just a preference for the use of the trilogy word and concept, but four-part series or Rat Series or similar would be more accurate. 2407:7000:9FD8:B600:B476:6A64:EAF6:B939 (talk) 22:56, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Trilogy of the Rat"