Japan: Jerusalem Prize to writer Haruki Murakami

Mojimoji praises ^[1] [jp] a speech given by writer Haruki Murakami ^[2] (村上春樹), who received the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society on Sunday Feb. 15th. The blogger also remarks on how, in his opinion, Japanese media intentionally avoided giving weight to Murakami's words ^[3], which should be read as a criticism of Israel's recent attack against Palestine: “If there is a hard, high wall and an egg that breaks against it, no matter how right the wall or how wrong the egg, I will stand on the side of the egg.”