This chapter suggests that the tools of philosophical enquiry are not only applicable to a reading of Murakami Haruki’s fiction, but virtually a necessity. From the author’s earliest work to his most recent, we find a persistent curiosity about the positioning of the individual, the nature of life and death, the presence and function of the soul, and the existence of a metaphysical space in which all oppositions—life and death, subject and object, past and future—are suspended. We find, in fact, that exploring Murakami’s fiction through ontological and epistemological lenses sheds considerable light both on what happens in the text and on what is happening in the author’s mind.