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What is the main point of the Abandoning a Cat: What I Talk About When I Talk ABout My Father article published for Japanese magazine BungeiShunju for Haruki Murakami?
Haruki Murakami recounts memories of his late father
What was the trauma in the article Abandoning a Cat for Haruki Murakami?
Haruki Murakami's father was involved in the Second Sino-Japanese War, and was deeply traumatized by it, which would in turn affect Murakami.
What was Haruki Murakami's first non-fiction book?
Haruki Murakami's first work of non-fiction was Underground.
When did Haruki Murakami return to Japan?
Haruki Murakami returned 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 Wind-Up Bird Chronicle won the Yomiuri Prize awarded by one of Haruki Murakami's harshest former critics, Kenzaburō Ōe who himself won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994.
Did Haruki Murakami write other novels besides The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Underground?
Haruki Murakami has written many novels including Sputnik Sweetheart and Kafka on the Shore
Did Haruki Murakami work with any other authors besides Haruki Murakami?
Aside from Mary Morris whom he briefly mentions in his memoir, alongside Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami was never a part of a community of writers.
What books did Haruki Murakami help translate?
Haruki Murakami translated many works of F. Scott Fitzgerald Raymond Carver, Truman Capote, John Irving, and Paul Theroux, among others, into Japanese.

Question: Did he have any controversy in this time?
Self-contained rewrite: Did Haruki Murakami have any controversy in this time?