<![endif] menu Culture Design Technology Travel Archives About Randomwire is the blog of David - a British technologist living and working in Tokyo. Here he shares his thoughts on life in Asia, culture , design , technology , and travel ... Randomwire Published: 11th August 2014 Post navigation Murakami is Coming Even at a time like this, the street is bright enough and filled with people coming and going—people with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward. — After Dark Haruki Murakami is often described as one of the world’s greatest living novelists and has been compared with the likes of J.D. Salinger (he even translated The Catcher in the Rye into Japanese). His depictions of the loneliness and isolation of modern ...