Haruki Murakami says writing is what he can do for disaster sufferers

Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami said Saturday writing good stories is the best he can do for sufferers from terrorist attacks and natural disasters such as the 2011 massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan's northeast."I was wondering what could I do for the people who have suffered. But I thought, what I can do is to write good fiction," he said during an event in New York, referring to a number of tragedies, also including the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States.The 69-year-old Murakami said that after the 1995 earthquake that destroyed his hometown of Kobe, western Japan, he "j…READ FULL ARTICLE