Haruki Murakami seems to be the most popular or well known Japanese story writer at this generation. He used to be a popular writer among Japanese college students 20 to 30 years ago. It’s a kind of mystery why he became such a popular author in the world after that. Many read his book, Norwegian Wood when it’s published in Japan and it was like a fashion of non heavy book readers because that was easy to read and easy to put the readers into the world of story.

But now it seems that his popularity is more than a fashion. Actually his style is not that emotional, it’s more like a dry and modern urban life style when we read, but to our surprise, as we read his books, we go further into his world with deeper emotion that we never feel at the beginning.  That means we find ourselves in the story as we proceed.

If the world readers feel the same way, it again means that human nature is not that different whichever the racial group they belong to. And it also means Haruki Murakami has real sense of human nature that reaches at all kind of people living on this planet.