Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
by Haruki Murakami
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Author: Haruki MurakamiTranslator: Alfred Birnbaum
Translator: Philip Gabriel
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); Japanese (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-04-10
ISBN: 0375725806
Number of pages: 366
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: "It might be you"
Summary: 4 Stars
I was most curious about the author's interest in this incident and his perspectives on the contextual, Japanese and even the world culture. The majority of the book is accounts of the incident by the survivors and their families, and also the interviews with Aum members with more interactions by the author. The author's candid and very respectful approaches to the interviewees are felt throughout the process, but the last interview seems to be the most impressive and insightful dialogue, and the author's afterword provides excellent perspectives that connect the incident to Japanese history and then to all of us. He concludes "The problem is that something very vital was lacking....a properly three-dimensional historical sense, or on a more concrete level, an identity between language and actions." He also warns hubris, "Maybe they (the involved individuals in the attack) think about things a little too seriously. Perhaps there's some pain they're carrying around inside. They're not good at making their feelings known to others and are somewhat troubled. They can't find a suitable means to express themselves, and bounce back and forth between feelings of pride and inadequancy. That might very well be me. It might be you." Karen Armstrong's Battle for God would be a good companion book about the extreme religions and the common factors, such as their eschatological views.
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