{"id":14317,"date":"2018-11-05T07:30:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T22:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hon.jp\/news\/?p=14317"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:06:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T03:06:52","slug":"haruki-murakami-to-donate-personal-archives-and-jazz-records-to-waseda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hon.jp\/news\/1.0\/0\/14317","title":{"rendered":"Haruki Murakami to donate personal archives (and jazz records?) to Waseda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"english\">Appearing at a press conference for the first time in 37 years (by his own account), the reclusive author Haruki Murakami announced on Nov. 4 that he will donate his personal archive to Waseda University, his alma mater, in Tokyo.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe archive not only will include his manuscripts, book collection, and international editions of his writing, but also his 20,000 plus record album collections.<\/p>\n<p>Waseda plans to set up Murakami Library, an international research institute with the archive. \u201cThere is no greater pleasure if they can be of use to people who would like to study my body of works,\u201d Murakami said. He also mentioned that he is preparing to set up a scholarship for literary scholars.<\/p>\n<p>Possible archival materials include his debut novel Norwegian Woods, written on the pages of a notebook. The University will start accepting archival materials next year as Murakami made a public promise to be personally involved in the development.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Appearing at a press conference for the first time in 37 years (by his own account), the reclusive author Haruki Murakami announced on Nov. 4 that he will donate his personal archive to Waseda Univers <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hon.jp\/news\/1.0\/0\/14317\" title=\"Haruki Murakami to donate personal archives (and jazz records?) to Waseda\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAoiEM2xMfscec3m5-RpsRDKVy0:productID":"","_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,12],"tags":[423,424,425],"class_list":{"0":"post-14317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-japanese-news","7":"category-abroad","8":"tag-haruki-murakami","9":"tag-japanese","10":"tag-waseda-university"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71Ph0-3IV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hon.jp\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hon.jp\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hon.jp\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hon.jp\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hon.jp\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hon.jp\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14809,"href":"https:\/\/hon.jp\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14317\/revisions\/14809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hon.jp\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hon.jp\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hon.jp\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}