I have just finished reading the most recent interview with Murakami-san in the new literary magazine from New York, called A PUBLIC SPACE. It is edited by Brigid Hughes of THE PARIS REVIEW. You can order it online here:
www.apublicspace.com
This is an amazing interview. Murakami-san talks about his experiences with J.D. Salinger and F. Scott Fitzgerald. He also talks about eating a hamburger for the first time in his life! He talks about his first encounter with grapefruit. He also talks about Al Qaeda as a metaphor for "closed systems" in his novels.
According to the interview, he is translating THE GREAT GATSBY and THE LONG GOODBYE now.
I have never seen any interview like this. He is interviewed together with the great Japanese translator and Tokyo University Professor, Motoyuki Shibata, who is his dear friend.