Haruki Murakami: Because my father was a Japanese invader, he refused to have children and eat Chinese food. What happened afterwards?

In the book "The Return of Murakami Asahi Hall" written by Haruki Murakami, Haruki Murakami described his family composition like this:

"I was born and raised in Kansai. My father, Qian Qiu Murakami, is the son of a monk in a temple in Kyoto. My mother, Miyuki Murakami, is the daughter of a shipyard merchant. It can be said that I am 100% Kansai. My education also has a strong localism. I think everything except Kansai dialect is heresy. "

Haruki Murakami's works are very famous, but few people know that Haruki Murakami's father was a soldier in the war of aggression against China.

Because his father was a Japanese invaders, Haruki Murakami hated this war, so he refused to have children and eat Chinese food. These two ideas were deeply influenced by his father.

What is the attitude of world famous writers with such a strong Japanese culture towards the Sino-Japanese War?

1. Haruki Murakami: For whom does the bell toll?

Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Forest, The End of the World, Cold Wonderland and other works are well known to Japanese readers, and they are very famous writers in Japan and even the whole world. Not only because of the book he wrote, but also because of the value choice he conveyed in the book.

As a writer with such achievements in writing, his attitude towards politics is very obvious and he doesn't care much. Although he doesn't care about political life, he is deeply tortured by Japanese history and politics, which comes from his father.

Hating war and longing for peace are the themes of almost every writer in his book after World War II, and they are also the correct values that need to be passed on to the world. This is the reason why writers are writers: using words to change the ice in people's hearts.

After Fukushima nuclear leak and Pearl Harbor Battle, influenced by the aftermath of World War II, Haruki Murakami's literary works reveal profound thoughts on life, representing the criticism of the "empty generation" of Japan on the war after World War II, which is another layer of charm of his works.

Reading Haruki Murakami's works, we can often find descriptions of the people of China and the war of aggression against China. For example, Mr. China in Murakami's youth trilogy Listen to the Wind, Bullet Ball in 1973, Adventure of Looking for Sheep, Ship to China, and the girls from China whom he met at work can show his profound understanding of China society.

The Battle of Nomen in the Travels of Strange Birds and Kafka by the Sea deeply discuss the changes of human nature before and after the war. Murakami asked the initiator of World War II: For whom does the bell toll? He never evaded these sensitive questions, but chose to face these cruel questions directly and express his vague feelings about them.

Second, about the father: extremely complicated mood.

Haruki Murakami's father is Qian Qiu Haruki Murakami, born in Kyoto, Japan in 19 17. When War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out in an all-round way, Qian Qiu Murakami was drafted into the army and became a soldier of the Japanese 16 Division.

During the war, Qian Qiu Murakami was drafted into the army three times. During his stay in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, as a young man, he participated in almost all wars of aggression against China.

When Haruki Murakami was in elementary school, Qian Qiu Murakami told him about his experience in the war of aggression against China in China and how he killed China prisoners of war. Haruki Murakami recalled, "I was very young at that time, and my father only vaguely described the situation of being executed at that time. The soldiers in China kept quiet until they were killed. They just sat there with their eyes closed and were executed. My father said that he had deep respect and admiration for the soldiers in China. Until his father died, he always had deep respect for the beheaded soldiers. "

However, this is a terrible memory for Haruki Murakami, because the father of a soldier who invaded China brought a very serious sense of self-doubt and shame to Haruki Murakami.

He felt very guilty about having such a father. Haruki Murakami mentioned: "Since I learned that my father was a Japanese invaders, I don't know how to get along with my father and how to face my father. The relationship between the two of them gradually became very distant and there was no verbal communication. Twenty years later, they didn't even meet again. "

This situation continued until the death of Haruki Murakami in 2008, and Haruki Murakami gradually let go of his bad feelings.

Nevertheless, in the shadow of his father, Haruki Murakami still left a serious sequela. First of all, he doesn't eat Chinese food. Even in China, he only eats his own canned food. Second, Haruki Murakami was condemned and tortured by his father's identity as a Japanese aggressor. In order not to let his children suffer such a crime, he decided not to have children, which is also a way to prevent the blood of the invaders from being passed on to the next generation.

This is not only the shadow that Haruki Murakami's father brought us, but also the shadow that Japan brought to all innocent people in the war of aggression against China. In order not to have this kind of war again, Haruki Murakami decided to accept the pain and face up to this history.

Face up to history and stop hiding in the cold fairyland. In recent years, Haruki Murakami has apologized to China for the mistakes made by his country in order to attract more China people to pay attention to this history. On many occasions, he called on the Japanese government to sincerely apologize for the past war of aggression.

In addition to public appeals, he also expressed sincere repentance in his works. In his novel "Assassination of Knight Leader" written five years ago, the characters' experiences were completely modeled after his father's war experiences, in which he apologized for the initiation of the war.

Three years ago, Haruki Murakami publicly criticized the Japanese government for not taking real responsibility for the Fukushima nuclear power plant leak and the war of aggression against China. This time the year before last, 70-year-old Haruki Murakami published an article in Japan, announcing that his father was a Japanese aggressor and calling on all Japanese to face up to history and not forget the past.

Over the years, Haruki Murakami has been working hard for Japan to admit the war crimes of aggression against China. Compared with Japanese officials, he is like a heresy.

He once said in his book: "The real end of the world, a cold fairyland, is not in any corner of the world, but in our hearts. If you can't face the past honestly, there can be no future. "

In Haruki Murakami, we can see that no matter a person or a country, only by bravely facing history and asking for forgiveness and apology can we not be tortured by inner pain. The end of the world or the cold wonderland is our choice.