Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche - Haruki Murakami

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche - Haruki Murakami (2003)

Part I. UNDERGROUND

Preface

TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: CHIYODA LINE

TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: MARUNOUCHI LINE (Destination: Ogikubo)

TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: MARUNOUCHI LINE (Destination: Ikebukuro)

TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: HIBIYA LINE (Departing: Naka-meguro)

TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: HIBIYA LINE (Departing: Kita-senju / Destination: Naka-meguro)

TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: HIBIYA LINE

TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: KODEMMACHO STATION

BLIND NIGHTMARE: WHERE ARE WE JAPANESE GOING?

Part II. THE PLACE THAT WAS PROMISED

Preface

“I’m still in Aum”

“Nostradamus had a great influence on my generation”

“Each individual has his own image of the Master”

“This was like an experiment using human beings”

“In my previous life I was a man”

“‘If I stay here,’ I thought, ‘I’m going to die’”

“Asahara tried to force me to have sex with him”

“No matter how grotesque a figure Asahara appears, I can’t just dismiss him”