Step into Murakami's dreamscapes
The Sunday Times visits the Haruki Murakami Library, which offers a peek into the novelist's mind
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Walter Sim Japan Correspondent In Tokyo, Walter Sim
Haruki Murakami has held many identities in his 72 years of life: student, record store employee, owner of the jazz bar and coffee shop Peter Cat, radio DJ and - his claim to fame - best-selling and critically acclaimed author of surrealist Japanese fiction.
All these selves are brought to life at a new library at his alma mater, Waseda University, in Tokyo.
