Haruki Murakami says he’s strongly opposed to the redevelopment of a historic Tokyo park district that would tear down the nearly century-old baseball stadium where he was inspired to become a novelist.
TOKYO — Author Haruki Murakami says he’s strongly opposed to the redevelopment of a historic and beloved Tokyo park district that would remove his favorite jogging path and tear down the nearly century-old baseball stadium where he was inspired to become a novelist.to put skyscrapers and new stadiums in the heart of the Jingu Gaien green district has become increasingly controversial.
“I’m strongly opposed to the Jingu Gaien redevelopment plan,” Murakami said on his Sunday radio show. “Please leave that pleasant jogging course full of greenery and the lovely Jingu Stadium as it is. Once something is destroyed, it can never be restored.”Murakami used to sit beyond the outfield fence, stretching out with a beer to watch the game on a grassy slope.
Murakami said Gaien’s circular jogging course, which is just over 1-kilometer long and has a mark at every 100 meters , is his favorite running area. During the radio show, he described “my secret, nice memory” of regularly passing another runner in the opposite direction, never speaking.
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