Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: レアジョブ英会話 Daily News Article Podcast
Episode: Novelist Murakami hosts Japanese ghost story reading ahead of Nobel Prize announcements
Description: Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami hosted a ghost story reading event in Tokyo amid growing attention before the announcement of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, an award he is a perennial favorite to win.
Murakami said at the September 28 reading that he enjoys scary stories and wants to write more of them. The event featured one from the 18th-century collection “Tales of Moonlight and Rain,” which intrigued Murakami since his childhood and is known to have inspired his work.
The classic collection written by Akinari Ueda called “Ugetsu Monogatari” in Japanese explores a blurry borderline between the real and surreal, which Mu...