Haruki Murakami Goes to Meet Hayao Kawai

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Japan's most famous novelist sits down with one of its most influential psychologists, and the resulting conversation ranges across storytelling, healing, commitment, and the mysterious boundary between words and images. Murakami and Kawai approach each topic from radically different directions — one through fiction, the other through clinical practice — yet keep arriving at the same conclusions about the human need for narrative. Their exchange is informal but intellectually rich, touching on questions that matter to anyone who thinks about why stories exist: How do people heal themselves through the act of making things up? When is a logical answer less useful than a compassionate one? What happens in the space between a story and its reader? A rare conversation between two minds that have shaped how Japan understands itself — timeless, warm, and full of unexpected connections.