Awarding Murakami the Nobel Prize therefore wouldn’t amount to a recognition of Japanese literature’s continued vitality, but to a vindication of American publishing’s marketing apparatus, not only as chief arbiter of which Japanese authors are read outside Japan, but as the world’s dominant literary and cultural tastemaker, capable of dressing its imperialism in increasingly ridiculous costumes – a New Yorker writer translated by a Harvard professor as paragon of contemporary Japanese literature.http://www.japantoday.com/category/opinions/view/why-haruki-murakami-should-not-receive-the-nobel-prize-for-literature