Japanese writer Haruki Murakami published an article in "Spring and Autumn of Literature and Art" entitled "Abandoning Cats, The Past I Want to Tell When I Mention My Father", revealing to the public that his father was once a Japanese army invading China and may have killed prisoners of war in China, and also revealed his consciousness of looking directly at and inheriting the negative history of his family. This is not the first time that Haruki Murakami has revealed to the outside world that his father was a Japanese army invading China. Moreover, this is not the first time that Haruki Murakami has called on Japan to face up to history.
When Murakami was still in elementary school, his father described to him a Chinese prisoner of war who was not afraid to die before being beheaded. Murakami said that for decades, he had suspected that his father was involved in the Nanjing Massacre... The article also reveals Murakami's heavy father-son relationship due to his mindfulness about his father's experience. Murakami said he was estranged from his father and "hadn't seen each other for more than 20 years"...
In order to investigate the matter, Haruki Murakami spent five years investigating. When Haruki Murakami figured out that his father belonged to the Nanjing Massacre, he "finally let go of a heavy burden." And he was also atonement for his sins by his actions, and on his way through China to the battlefield of Nomonkan, he ate only the cans he carried with him, and did not touch any Chinese food.
The heroic image of my father's past collapsed and was replaced by a bloody executioner, a criminal image of a war that invaded other people's homes. For this reason, Haruki Murakami was distraught, because his father was a Japanese invader, so he refused to give birth and eat Chinese food. In The eyes of Haruki Murakami, as a child of the Japanese army invading China, his existence seems to be saddled with an invisible shackle because of his father's bad deeds. This sin has been perpetuated into the bloodline.
In recent years, he has come out at the first opportunity to call for "Japan to sincerely apologize for past wars of aggression." In an interview on the 70th anniversary of the victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan, Haruki Murakami said: "Japan should repeatedly apologize for the history of aggression against China, the Korean Peninsula and other countries during World War II until the injured party believes that an apology is sufficient." In an interview with the Asahi Shimbun and many other mainstream Japanese media outlets, he said that it was wrong to try to forget or alter history. As a novelist, he wanted to use a "storytelling" approach to confrontation.