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My generation of Japanese readers must have been very lucky that we could experience the process of the transformation, or the destruction according to some critics, of the tradition of Japanese literature caused by Haruki Murakami and others during the 1980s.
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KatÅ, Y. (2016). Our Old Haruki Murakami and the Experience of Teaching his Works in Japan. In: Strecher, M.C., Thomas, P.L. (eds) Haruki Murakami. Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genres. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-462-6_2
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