FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2009 file photo, novelist Haruki Murakami of Japan reacts before receiving the Jerusalem award during the International Book Fair in Jerusalem. Starting Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015, author Murakami will be taking questions and responding as best as he can for the next two weeks on a website set up by Shinchosha Publishing Co, Ltd. The best-selling novelist and perennial candidate for a Nobel Prize in literature, Murakami is notoriously publicity-shy. But he wants some virtual interaction with his readers, says his publisher Shinchosha. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)