I have finished reading 国境の南、太陽の西, which makes it the first book I have read in Japanese. Yay! It took me about a month (I was reading something else at the same time at the beginning), and it significantly sped up as I went along, in part because I felt overall more comfortable and in part because I learned many of the vocab Murakami uses frequently. Besides the language aspect, I enjoyed the book itself quite a lot. I was reading a pretty well written review on GoodReads and I was a bit surprised in reading some of the quotes chosen, as they were exactly how I remembered them.
I absolutely need a pause now, I'll have to read some short, non-Japanese book to recharge.