In Abandoning a Cat，Haruki Murakami seeks to face the true history of Japanese aggression in the second World War through exploring his father’s experience as a soldier. While we should acknowledge the positive aspects of such writing，we should also see that the “father” in both Murakami’s life and his writing does not refer to “history” as an abstract concept；instead，the “father” is also an individual who actually existed in history. The “father” thus cannot be simply equated with “history”. In the post-war social context，Haruki Murakami intentionally manipulates the narration to construct the equivalence between “father” and “history”. While “father” now signifies the history of the war，“history” is heavily colored by Murakami’s personal emotions. The theory of “postmemory”，which tends to simply equate “father” with “history”，is thus inadequate for the analysis of Murakami’s representation of the war.