Haruki Murakami Wrote About His Father’s War and It Took Him 30 Years to Start

Part of the estrangement was personal. But part of it was historical. Murakami had begun to suspect that his father may have been involved in the Nanjing Massacre of 1937, one of the most brutal episodes of the war, in which an estimated 300,000 Chinese civilians and prisoners of war were killed by Japanese forces.…

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