Just read a great book about Japan (which also has a clue about the relationships within Murakami's Kafka on the Shore).
The book is called Extremes: Contradictions in Contemporary Japan by a guy called G M Thomas.
(So fas I know available in the UK, Japan, France but not the US.)
It's a book about life in Japan, and in it, the real life Johnnie Walker is revealed.
Anyway, I liked it but I wonder if anyone else has any recommendations for good books. (I've read Alex Kerr - so so - and Donald Richie - who I greatly admire.
The book is called Extremes: Contradictions in Contemporary Japan by a guy called G M Thomas.
(So fas I know available in the UK, Japan, France but not the US.)
It's a book about life in Japan, and in it, the real life Johnnie Walker is revealed.
Anyway, I liked it but I wonder if anyone else has any recommendations for good books. (I've read Alex Kerr - so so - and Donald Richie - who I greatly admire.