Jimbocho may be the coolest neighborhood in the world according to Time Out magazine, but you wouldn¡¯t know it on a rainy Wednesday. In between drowsy secondhand bookstores and aromatic curry restaurants, a few black-suited salarymen hoist up their umbrellas on the way to the next meeting. Behind them, two European tourists search for their destination.
¡°ChatGPT sent us here,¡± says Miha Mazzini, ¡°so we are just executing AI¡¯s orders.¡±?
Mazzini, 64, is a bestselling Slovenian novelist and screenwriter. While he¡¯s a fan of Tokyo¡¯s premier bookshop neighborhood, he still finds himself doing a lot of searching. ¡°I used to read many Japanese writers, but I¡¯m not so much a fan of Murakami and what¡¯s coming out of Japanese literature in English nowadays.¡±?
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