This is where the protagonist of Hakuri Murakami’s Norwegian Wood lives and studies throughout the novel. Murakami himself attended the school in the 60s, when anti-imperialist student protests were very common on this school’s campus.
“The lecture was about half over and the professor was drawing a sketch of a Greek stage on the blackboard when the door opened again and two students in helmets walked in. They looked like some kind of comedy team, one tall, thin and pale, the other short, round and dark with a long beard that didn't suit him. The tall one carried an armful of political agitation handbills. The short one walked up to the professor and said, with a degree of politeness, that they would like to use the second half of his lecture for political debate and hoped that he would cooperate.” (Murakami 69).