{"id":94911,"date":"2026-04-24T11:40:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/japans-haruki-murakami-will-publish-his-first-new-novel-in-3-years-the-tale-of-kaho-in-july\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:40:57","slug":"japans-haruki-murakami-will-publish-his-first-new-novel-in-3-years-the-tale-of-kaho-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/japans-haruki-murakami-will-publish-his-first-new-novel-in-3-years-the-tale-of-kaho-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan’s Haruki Murakami will publish his first new novel in 3 years, ‘The Tale of Kaho’ in July"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tokyo — <\/span>a new book by Haruki Murakami<\/a> This will be the first time a full-length novel by a Japanese author will feature a female lead character and her quest to find a way out of a strange world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Tale of Kaho,\u201d which is scheduled to be released in print and digital formats on July 3, focuses on a 26-year-old picture book author named Kaho. <\/p>\n

The new novel is Murakami’s first novel in three years. His previous novel, “The city and its precarious walls,”<\/a> It is a story of a male protagonist who explores love, loss and the boundaries between the real and subconscious worlds.<\/p>\n

Kaho is the first solo female protagonist featured in Murakami’s full-length novel, Shinchosha Publishing Co. said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n

Initially, the novel began as a short story titled, “Say,”<\/a> Which Murakami had practiced two years earlier at a book reading event at his alma mater Waseda University in Tokyo with Meiko Kawakami, a famous female author and admirer of his work. The story was published in the June 2024 edition of Monthly Shincho magazine.<\/p>\n

Kaho’s character, who has average looks and intelligence, is also a curious person. One day she dines with a man who tells her, “I have never seen someone as ugly as you.” Not angry but astonished, the curious Kaho tries to figure out her hidden message.<\/p>\n

Soon he starts experiencing strange things in his life.<\/p>\n

A brief promotional teaser released by the publisher states, “I have to find a way out of this world.” “The Murakami world is in full force.”<\/p>\n

Murakami has since released three “Say” series stories in Shincho magazine, most recently in the March edition. These include “The Anteater of Musashi-Sakai,” “Kaho and the Termite Queen” and “Kaho and the Motorcycle Man, and Scarlett Johansson.” <\/p>\n

The English version of the first piece, translated by Philippe Gabriel, was published in The New Yorker magazine in 2024. <\/p>\n

Murakami brings together the four volumes and gives them new life in a new 352-page novel, the publisher said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tokyo — a new book by Haruki Murakami This will be the first time a full-length novel by a Japanese author will feature a female lead character and her quest to find a way out of a strange world. \u201cThe Tale of Kaho,\u201d which is scheduled to be released in print and digital formats on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[25158,3484,3696,25161,25159,25160,17511,1031],"class_list":{"0":"post-94911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-news","8":"tag-haruki","9":"tag-japans","10":"tag-july","11":"tag-kaho","12":"tag-murakami","13":"tag-publish","14":"tag-tale","15":"tag-years"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94914,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94911\/revisions\/94914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}