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Book cover of After the Quake
After the QuakeHaruki Murakami

Characters in After the Quake

12 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Satsuki

    A doctor vacationing in Thailand who confronts a long-buried grief and hatred, in Thailand.

  • Miyake

  • Sala

  • Katagiri

    A mild-mannered loan collection officer recruited by a giant talking frog to save Tokyo, in Super-Frog Saves Tokyo.

  • Komura

    An electronics salesman abandoned by his wife who delivers a mysterious box to Hokkaido, in UFO in Kushiro.

  • Junpei

    A short-story writer weighing love and belonging, in Honey Pie.

  • Yoshiya

    A young man raised to believe he is a child of God, who follows a stranger through night streets in All God's Children Can Dance.

Antagonists

  • Earthquake Man

Supporting characters

  • Frog

    A courtly, literary-minded giant frog waging an unseen battle against Worm beneath Tokyo.