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Hirokami (広神村, Hirokami-mura) was a village located in Kitauonuma District, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 8,892 and a density of 84.17 persons per km 2. The total area was 105.64 km 2.
Murakami was born in Kyoto, Japan, during the post-World War II baby boom and was raised in Nishinomiya, Ashiya and Kobe. [ 21 ][ 22 ] He is an only child. His father was the son of a Buddhist priest, [ 23 ] and his mother is the daughter of an Osaka merchant. [ 24 ] Both taught Japanese literature. [ 25 ]
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On a clear spring day in 1995, five members of a religious cult unleashed poison gas on the Tokyo subway system. In an attempt to discover why, Murakami talks to the people who lived through the catastrophe, and in so doing lays bare the Japanese psyche.
0:00 Prelude 2:04 Scene – A great terrace in the Palace of Herod 3:03 The slaves of Salome, Jews, Nazarenes, etc. 8:09 Noise in the banqueting-hall 8:27 Ente...
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- Rique Borges
Explore the historic villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama. Gifu and Toyama prefectures house these historic villages with their immaculately preserved steep-roofed dwellings, taking you back to a different era of Japan.
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Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (アンダーグラウンド, Andāguraundo, 1997–1998) is a book by Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami about the 1995 Aum Shinrikyo sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. The book is made up of a series of interviews with individuals who were affected by the attacks, and the English ...
