Following Russia's military invasion of Ukraine, Haruki Murakami, a world-famous writer, appeared on a radio program and delivered a message appealing for anti-war and peace along with the songs he chose.
"Murakami RADIO Special Edition Music to Stop the War" broadcast on "TOKYO FM" on the night of the 18th said that the war would be stopped through music that conveys the importance of anti-war and life while Russia's military invasion of Ukraine continues. It was planned to call for peace.
At the beginning of the program, Mr. Murakami said, "Does music have the power to stop the war? Unfortunately, I don't think it has that power. But the power to make listeners feel that they have to stop the war." There is. "
Mr. Murakami introduced songs selected from his own CDs and records, along with the meaning of the lyrics and the social situation at that time, to convey the importance of life to young people, and to adults, to young people. When he played an American song that appealed for the need to support him, he said, "It is really sad that young people die in the war that the elderly started on their own."
At the end of the approximately one-hour show, Murakami said in a speech by Rev. King of the United States, "Everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. Never forget that." After introducing, he said, "It will be difficult if you just keep quiet and quietly follow the leader," and appealed the danger of delusional belief in authoritarianism.