
Les Echos, French financial newspaper, is publishing today an article about Japanese women and their difficulties to find or keep a job after having a baby. The author is Michel De Grandi, Les Echos’s correspondent in Japan. The picture editors choose a picture of mine for this article, the Shinjuku red-dressed girl, who embodies youth [...]

Books magazine published a picture of mine about Murakami’s last novel, 1Q84, in a special issue about best-sellers. The first printing of 1Q84 was sold out within the first day of release in Japan and more than one million copies sold after two weeks.
Seven Japanese newspapers in the top 10 : Rank, Title, Country, Circulation (000) 1, Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan, 14,067 2, The Asahi Shimbun, Japan, 12,121 3, Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, 5,587 4, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan, 4,635 5, Chunichi Shimbun, Japan, 4,512 6, Bild, Germany, 3,867 7, Sankei Shimbun, Japan, 2,757 8, Canako Xiaoxi (Beijing), China, 2,627 [...]