Haruki Murakami Hariku Murakami is a highly acclaimed Japanese author who hailed from the Japan’s major city, Tokyo. And as such, he chose the glowing city capital to be the main setting of his two short stories, “The Elephant Vanishes” and “Second Bakery Attack” (Kattoulas 2002). On a personal level, in story the “The Elephant Vanishes,” Murakami characterizes how our lives, and the world in general for that matter, are full of acute possibilities – both in the most surreal and very ordinary