For 10 points, name this country of Natsume Soseki, Basho, and Haruki Murakami.
One author from this country wrote a novel that begins with a man listening to Claudio Abbado conducting The Thieving Magpie while cooking spaghetti, and then receiving a mysterious phone call. The abolition of egoism by a man who forced his best friend K to commit suicide is detailed in another novel by an author from this country, who also created a non-human protagonist who drinks beer before drunkenly falling into a barrel and drowning. This home to an author who wrote about a main character searching for a cat and encountering the bizarre characters Cinnamon and Nutmeg is also the home country of a poet who wrote about an old pond, which produces a sound of water when a frog jumps into it. For 10 points, name this country of Natsume Soseki, Basho, and Haruki Murakami.
One author from this country wrote a novel that begins with a man listening to Claudio Abbado conducting The Thieving Magpie while cooking spaghetti, and then receiving a mysterious phone call.
Japan