The JLPT is approaching, and in order to improve my vocabulary I bought Haruki Murakami's [i]Kafka on the Shore [/i]and Osamu Dazai's [i]No Longer Human[/i]. I want to polish my vocabulary by reading these books. After I finish, I want to read more modern literature. If I only wanted to study Japanese culture, it would probably be easier to read them in English, but aside from improving my Japanese, because translation is ultimately interpretation, I believe that if I read it in the original Japanese I'll understand the author's intent.