{"id":11232,"date":"2025-09-11T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/?p=11232"},"modified":"2025-09-18T10:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:04:36","slug":"%e5%b0%8f%e5%b1%95%e7%a4%ba%e3%80%8c%e5%9b%b3%e6%9b%b8%e9%a4%a8%e3%81%8c%e3%81%be%e3%82%82%e3%82%8b%e3%82%82%e3%81%ae%e3%80%81%e5%9b%b3%e6%9b%b8%e9%a4%a8%e3%81%8c%e3%81%b2%e3%82%89%e3%81%8f%e3%82%82-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/other-en\/11232","title":{"rendered":"Small Exhibition:  What Libraries Protect, What Libraries Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Small Exhibition:  What Libraries Protect, What Libraries Open<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11041\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSCF3421-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><br \/>\nLibraries frequently appear as settings in Haruki Murakami&#8217;s works, and Murakami himself describes them as \u201ca special place for me.\u201d When reading books, especially stories, don&#8217;t you sometimes feel as if you&#8217;ve entered another world, only to return upon finishing, or perhaps feel slightly changed by that journey?<\/p>\n<p>Libraries serve as a kind of \u201cwindow to another world\u201d within our reality, sometimes as a shelter that protects visitors from tough situations. At the same time, through their collections, reference services, and events, they also act as a source of ideas for visitors, opening up their lives and thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the importance of libraries illustrated in Murakami&#8217;s works, this exhibition invites you to consider why libraries remain essential not only in everyday life but also under harsh circumstances.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li>September 11, 2025 \u2013 October 28, 2025<\/li>\n<li>Opening hours: 10:00-17:00<\/li>\n<li>Closed: Wednesdays and other days (Please see website for details)<\/li>\n<li>Free Admission<\/li>\n<li>The Waseda International House of Literature, 1F<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* The exhibition is mainly in Japanese, but English commentary is also available at the venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Exhibition: What Libraries Protect, What Libraries Open Libraries frequently appear as settings in Haruk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[87,84,117],"class_list":["post-11232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-en","tag-arts-en","tag-culture-en","tag-exihibitions-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11258,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232\/revisions\/11258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}