Murakami Manuscripts Sold

This ain't cool.

Handwritten manuscripts by well-known Japanese author Haruki Murakami have been sold in large quantities at second-hand bookstores without his permission, it has emerged.

Murakami revealed that his manuscripts had been put on sale in an article in the April edition of "Bungei Shunju", titled "Aru Henshusha no Sei to Shi" (The life and death of a certain editor). . . .

"I don't know why Yasuhara had to do something like that," Murakami said in the Bungei Shunju article. "It clearly went against basic professional morality, and in legal terms I would say it is a form of selling stolen property."