After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, critically acclaimed writer Hideo Furukawa experienced an unsettling ¡°imagination meltdown.¡±
¡°Novelists are artists, and usually imagination comes between them and reality,¡± Fukushima-born Furukawa says. ¡°But when reality becomes something far beyond our imagination, we are exposed, rendered naked and reality moves closer to art. We must then confront reality directly.¡±

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