Partially because Murakami i very involved in the Japanese to English Translation. He cares a lot about translation, he's actually a very accomplished English t

Partially because Murakami i very involved in the Japanese to English Translation. He cares a lot about translation, he's actually a very accomplished English to Japanese translator himself, he's translate F. Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote among others. Plus he has an excellent series of English translators, like Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel. He's noted that he really learned to love novels by reading imported English language dime novels as a teenager in Kobe.