We Brought Fukushima Disaster On Ourselves, Murakami Asserts
Terming Fukushima Japan's "second massive nuclear disaster,"
novelist Haruki Murakami said "this time no one dropped a bomb
on us" but instead "we set the stage, we committed the crime
with our own hands, we are destroying our own lands, and we are
destroying our own lives."   "While we are the victims, we are
also the perpetrators. We must fix our eyes on this fact," he
continued. "If we fail to do so, we will inevitably repeat the
same mistake again, somewhere else."   Murakami, whose novels
"Norwegian Wood" and "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," among others,
have given him a global following, made his comments in an
interview with Evan Osnos which appears in the Oct. 17th issue
of "The New Yorker" magazine.   Osnos writes about the Japanese
response to the March 11th earthquake and the subsequent tidal
waves that rocked the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Power Station on
Japan's Pacific coast.   He quotes then Prime Minister Naoto Kan
as saying that he fe