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I still remember: In the spring of 1995, in March, I was sitting in Beijing West banbishan Street home while eating while watching TV. TV by the news about Japan. First reported the beginning of the Great Hanshin Earthquake current situation, then the screen suddenly appeared a lot of smoke, a lot of people from the subway crowded out, some shouting, some cough, some struggling, tears, or the police onto a stretcher away ...... News to inform the world: the earthquake trauma is healed, "Aum Shinrikyo Tokyo subway sarin incident took place in Japan, the liquid was cast in the subway, victims of more than 5,000 people have died in more than a dozen people, and so on. The screen has been found in a piece of paper of terror, confusion and even twitching face of the common people.

Aum Shinrikyo is it? Shoko Asahara, who is? Had never heard of.

Why the Japanese in their own country, using poison gas to kill the innocent people of the same nation?

These sporadic doubt, they will be forgotten after the news. Until two years after I first east to walk in the the Penglai Island "on the street, and every day, in and out of Tokyo's subway and tram, only trance in retrospect.

Sea, courtyard, tea, Bow Road, forests and haiku ...... Japan has been very quiet. But I later poem, "silence is bent." From after World War II, the Japanese overwrought economic life, resulting in a personalized folding booms and emerging contemporary religious groups. Alienation Confucianism, Zen and the cottage version of Christianity, Hiroshima nuclear explosion sequelae, US-Japan trade friction, Okinawa Garrison problem, the collapse of the bubble economy and the spirit of the Emperor System system, the traditional culture is inherently oppressive social change even more anxiety and distorted. In Japan, the beliefs and non-beliefs are very extreme. "Brainwashing" has become a common phenomenon. Indulge in a pure values, numbness becomes more affordable. It is not the American post-industrial lifestyle obliterate memories, is to focus on a particular hobby. (State Shinto) everywhere on the roadside shrine pious believers of incense, the money worship company staff, traces the stench in the streets alcoholic, often the same people. Faith to commit a crime or to the cold, can co-exist in the same person. This as Haruki Murakami "1Q84" written the night sky in Japan can have two moons.

Since last year, "1Q84" hot, prompting renewed concern Haruki Murakami once thought to be "rich class popular novelist" thinking of. The Aum Shinrikyo background detective novels, the first prototype, Haruki Murakami wrote 15 years ago, works of reportage "underground". It is as late as this year was only translated into Chinese.

"Underground" structure is very clear that the sarin incident, the Japanese subway lines the main lever to the interview encounter along the 62 parties in the event. As subway main line of the chapter, a total of four groups, plus before and after in mind, namely: EDITORIAL, Chiyoda Line, Marunouchi Line (bound for Ogikubo), Marunouchi Line (bound for Ikebukuro / Shuttle), Hibiya Line (project black origin) with the unmarked nightmare. " At the beginning of each along Murakami write an interview Aum Shinrikyo followers on the implementation of the terrorist action, as the following parties "essay". After the sarin incident, some people pain, and some people numb, some families more stable, some couples are divorced; Some people go to hell gates of hell Zouliaoyizao of, and some people are lucky enough to drag on; Some people say "It should be all of them shot," while others say "I do not understand the things they did, because they do not understand, so hate them"; Some people think that "some of the ideas in question in sprinkle pesticide, was due to the breathing gas and lead to permanent disability ... Murakami in order to utilize the information, before and after the interview time is about more than a year. These interview, quite completely exposed to the contemporary Japanese political management, subway transportation, Co., Ltd., the health care system, the police system, the interaction between the social state of mind, the concept of time, emotion, crime, the justice system and the psychology many ills crisis. It can be said that the "underground" is a "Aum Shinrikyo subway sarin incident" to study the core of contemporary Japanese society figures Biography heresy Notes on. Although these figures are more humble "little people." But our world, bag factory only the "little people" was the most representative of all great men often did not represent the.