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The processing of collective trauma soon became an important theme in Murakami's writing, which had previously been more personal in nature.
What was the trauma?
Murakami returned to Japan in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake and the Aum Shinrikyo gas attack.
He came to terms with these events with his first work of non-fiction.
What was his first non-fiction book?
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995) is a novel that fuses the realistic and fantastic, and contains elements of physical violence.
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When did he return to Japan?
in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake and the Aum Shinrikyo gas attack.
Was The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle a popular book?
The novel won the Yomiuri Prize, awarded by one of his harshest former critics, Kenzaburo Oe, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994.
Did he write other novels?
English translations of many of his short stories written between 1983 and 1990 have been collected in The Elephant Vanishes.
Did he work with any other authors?
Murakami has also translated many works of F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, Truman Capote, John Irving, and Paul Theroux, among others, into Japanese.
What books did he help translate?
Murakami took an active role in translation of his work into English, encouraging "adaptations" of his texts to American reality rather than direct translation.
Did he have any controversy in this time?
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What else did Murakami do during this time?
Some of his works which appeared in German turned out to be translations from English rather than from Japanese .

Question: What was the translation?
Self-contained rewrite: What was the German translation?