Haruki Murakami has always been insistent that he has been very little influenced by Yukio Mishima and far prefers Japanese authors like Natsume Soseki, Junichiro Tanizaki and Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

In 2015, Haruki Murakami took the unexpected step of rereleasing in English his earliest novels, “Hear the Wind Sing” (1979) and “Pinball, 1973” (1980) — written while he was still managing a jazz bar ...

Haruki Mishima and Towa Honda are new students at Aokisora High School and best friends; at a convenience store near their high school, Haruki runs into his classmate Miharu Mashiki, a girl he's ...