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Most wiki articles have an early-life section. I haven't found much about his early life other than he grew up poor, but there is potential for a good early life section being written. The article I am going through right now says Murakami grew up poor and has been transparent about how his goal is to make a lot of money.

DOB is a character Murakami repeatedly has used, meant to represent the negative aspects of Japanese culture. Contrary to popular belief, DOB is not influenced by Mickey Mouse, but rather a popular cartoon monkey-like character from Hong Kong. DOB is meant to be seen as an advertising character without a specific product. Murakami has said that "DOB is always confused and in a daze." Mr. DOB was patented in the 1990's.

Murakami has a studio outside of Tokyo named the Hiropon factory, meaning "heroin" in Japanese. The Hiropon factory gets compared to Andy Warhol's Silver Factory.