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Murakami's aged men show Japan's post-disaster spirituality

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By YURI KAGEYAMA

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It all comes back, Murakami said, to that question he has addressed all his life: What is Japan?

Ha ha. Japan is that very question. It is the only place I know where you spend so much time with the locals talking about what their country is without ever getting anywhere. Because, at root, a conclusion is irrelevant. What is wanted is to just be acknowledged and validated as Japanese and that is done by simply talking about what is Japan. It is a form of navel gazing but is also assertive in a passive-aggressive way.

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Murakami is not dubbed Andy Warhol of Japan, since that is a passive sentence. Murakami calls himself Andy Warhol. In Murakami's return to nativist spirituality, every Arhat looks like Murakami, and 3/11 gives him an excuse to carry on capitalising on his message of the pitiful victimised Japan. He should just call himself Mammon-kami.

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I like it. Forget the philosophy, it's decent artwork.

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