Haruki Phenomenon

This book explores the idea of a new cosmopolitan Japanese identity through a socio-cultural analysis of contemporary Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.  It is the first monograph to apply the idea of cosmopolitanism to this writer’s global popularity widely known as the “Haruki phenomenon”.

By pioneering an enquiry into Murakami’s cosmopolitanism, this book aims to overcome the prevailing myth of “J...