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Super Frog Saves Tokyo
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"Super Frog Saves Tokyo"
by MURAKAMI Haruki
Japan
The Question of Reality
Themes in story
Frog recruits Katagiri to battle Worm with him, but the true quest Katagiri embarks on in “Super-Frog Saves Tokyo” is primarily philosophical in nature. Throughout the story, Katagiri struggles to determine whether his experiences are real, wondering whether he can trust his senses and trying to figure out what’s going on around him.
Philosophers call this branch of inquiry, which seeks to understand the nature of human knowledge, epistemology. Epistemologists examine the ways in which human beings draw conclusions about the world around them.
Virtue as Its Own Reward
The Instability of Life
Symbols
Worm
Motifs
The Underground
Haruki Murakami
born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949 and raised mostly in the cosmopolitan port city of Kobe, where his mother and father both taught Japanese literature. Murakami’s childhood was spent in the traumatic wake of World War II.
Tokyo's Influence on the Author
- January1995 an earthquake measured 6.8 on the magnitude scale.
- 6,434 people lost their lives; about 4,600 of them were from Kobe.
- This was Japan's worst earthquake in the 20th century
March 1995
- an act of domestic terrorism by members of Aum Shinrikyo
- five coordinated attacks, on several lines of the Tokyo subway
- killing thirteen people, severely injuring fifty and causing temporary vision problems for nearly a thousand others.
Japan During World War II
The Japanese had surrendered to the Allies in August 1945, after atomic bombs were detonated over the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Earlier that year, half of Tokyo had burned, and American firebombs had killed more than 100,000 Japanese. After the war, the United States occupied and ruled Japan from 1945 until 1952.
"Super Frog Saves Tokyo"
From the collection of: after the quake (Kami no Kodomo-tachi wa Mina Odoru?, "The children of the gods all dance") a collection of 6 short stories, written between 1999 and 2000. First published in Japan in 2000, it was released in English as after the quake in 2002