Are you afflicted by unending ennui and a mysterious sense that life is incomplete? Do you find yourself sitting down to a lonely meal of spaghetti for one, pondering the fundamental loneliness of human existence? If so, Haruki Murakami would like to help. The legendary Japanese novelist is setting up an agony uncle website in which he will dish out sage advice to readers.

Murakami-san no tokoro (or Mr Murakami's Place) will accept questions from visitors from January 15 until the end of month. You can submit your lovelorn problems in any language, although the site – for now – is only in Japanese. Murakami's answers will be published over the next three months.

Murakami is famously reclusive, but his publishers said that the author had suddenly expressed a desire to communicate with his readers. He previously published Young Kafka in 2005, which documented emails he had received about his book Kafka On The Shore. 

Shinchosa Publishing said that the author "will receive questions of any kind", although he is especially keen on "curveball enquiries that pique his interest". So for the love of god, try not to send in a question about dick pics or Tinder.