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A Journal of the Irrepressible

Ryu Murakami

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My ongoing love affair with contemporary Japanese literature manifests itself in a review of In the Miso Soup. The explicit (and feared) sexuality of young Japanese girls, which forms the basis of Murakami’s novel along with a fear of foreign criminals, is analyzed in an article by Christopher Reed. I’ve also recently reviewed Kafka on the Shore by the other Murakami, Haruki. Since writing the Kafka review it has occurred to me that Murakami’s novel very likely refers to the Japanese war criminal and medical experimenter, Dr. Shiri Ishii. See Christopher Reed’s article about this strangely unknown man, “the Japanese Mengele.”

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Written by Brian

June 24th, 2006 at 2:06 pm

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