Why does Haruki Murakami refuse to have children?

Haruki Murakami refused to have children in order to protest against the Japanese imperialist Tsinghua, and to demonstrate against his father. His spirit really deserves the respect of each and every one of us.

His father is an invader of China, and he himself should hate his father's behavior, so he doesn't want his children to have his father's blood.

Since he is a gentle man, there must be a reason for his refusal to have children. Everyone has their own secrets, and I don't think it's necessary to delve too deep. We just have to respect his decision.

A very gentle person's strong refusal to do something shows that this matter has a great impact on him, and Haruki Murakami's refusal to have children may have something to do with her family.

It is said that because his father was an invading Japanese soldier, he refused to have children and did not want to let the genes of the invaders in his body continue.

Haruki Murakami's father was an invading soldier, and he believes that he has inherited the evil of his father's aggression, and he does not want to pass this evil down his bloodline. Haruki Murakami is one of the few Japanese people who is willing to look directly at the negative history and inherit it.

Have his own considerations, not necessarily gentle people must have children, this is a trauma in his own heart, and refusing to give birth is also afraid of touching the scar.

Because his father participated in the invasion of China, Haruki Murakami felt ashamed, and he didn't want his children to be the offspring of the invaders, so he didn't want children.

Haruki Murakami refuses to have children: because of the sins committed by his father, he does not want his children to continue to bear them.

Haruki Murakami is deeply ashamed of the crime of invading China, and he has such blood flowing in his body, and he refuses to pass on this blood to the next generation.

Because in Haruki Murakami's heart, his father was an invader of China who caused indelible damage to the Chinese people, and he himself was a descendant of this invader, and he had such a shame in his blood, and he didn't want to pass this shame on to his next generation, so that his children would suffer the same shame as him, so he refused to have children.

Haruki Murakami has no children.

In April 1968, he moved to Tokyo and enrolled in the Faculty of Letters of Waseda University, majoring in drama. He lived in the private dormitory of the Hosokawa Domain, Mejirahara, "Wakei-ryo", for half a year, and then withdrew. Later, he moved to Nerima-ku for boarding.

The nearest station is Metropolitan Housekeeping, where you hardly go to Tezana school, do odd jobs in Shinjuku, and spend the rest of your time in the jazz bars of Kabukicho.

While studying at Waseda University, Haruki Murakami met Yoko Takahashi, who would later become his wife, and after a period of dating, they decided to stay together for the rest of their lives.

In 1971, 22-year-old Murakami decided to take a leave of absence from school to register his marriage with Yoko. The young couple went to the record store during the day and worked in a café at night, and did not have children.

Haruki Murakami is an out-and-out individualist, believing that family is a burden to the individual, so he has never had children. There are no plans to ask for it, as mentioned in his interview.

Because Haruki Murakami's father was a Japanese soldier who invaded China and may have killed prisoners of war, he felt very painful and ashamed, so he didn't eat Chinese food, and he didn't want his offspring to be miserable because of this matter, so he chose to refuse to have offspring.

Haruki Murakami is a famous modern ** family in Japan, and his masterpieces are mainly "Norwegian Forest" and "Listen to the Wind" and so on。In fact, anyone who has read Haruki Murakami's books or friends who know him knows that in fact, he has always lived in the shadow of his father, and has always called for his country to have a formal history.

In May 2019, Haruki Murakami published an article called "Abandoning the Cat, the Past I Want to Tell When I Mention My Father", which mainly talks about the fact that his father was the Japanese army invading China, and the impact of being a direct descendant. He had also published some articles before that, so this is not the first time that Haruki Murakami has called on Japan to face up to history.

The article, published in May, has caused a lot of buzz in China, and many netizens have expressed their approval of Haruki Murakami's behavior, and so have I. At the same time, I also think that it takes a lot of courage to speak out about this. Japan has always maintained an attitude of not knowing and not acknowledging many things about its invasion of China, but everyone knows that the things it has done cannot be erased, and even if it does not admit it, it still exists.

It's just that not all of them are like Haruki Murakami, who feels ashamed as a descendant of the invasion of China. Murakami said that in fact, this was also the reason for his estrangement from his father, because he felt ashamed as long as he remembered that his father had done such a thing, so he made such a move, and insisted on not having offspring with his wife, because he was not sure whether his children would bear such pain in the same way.

However, it was also because of such a move that it was violently attacked by the Japanese right-wing, and some Japanese right-wingers even launched a campaign to refuse to buy Haruki Murakami's books. In this regard, Haruki Murakami stressed that he hopes to fight against "distorted history" through the form of storytelling. So I should give a thumbs up to Murakami's behavior!

No children.

He himself once said something similar to "I don't know how to be a role model for my children". When he was young, he opened a bar, and his life was very hard, and he probably didn't have that mood, and he was confused by too many things. After winning his first article, "Listen to the Wind", he began to focus on writing, gave up the bar business, and gradually found a rhythm in writing.

Murakami is like a new life, full of fighting spirit, and children are no longer necessary to make the family stable. And so it went on for 20 years.

In Kafka by the Sea, the protagonist is a teenager for the first time, and is educated by Murakami's fate, and finally "moves to the next stage". In the preface, it says, "If I had a child, I would be about the same age as him", I think Murakami may have wanted to have a new person to accept his life experience at this time, but it is too late to want a child at this time, and his own identity is special, and the impact on the child is not known whether it is good or bad.