News of author Kenzaburo Oe's death reached me a month after I had visited the former village of Ose in Ehime Prefecture where he was born and grew up. A river ran along this small mountain ...

Kenzaburo Oe, Author, William Wetherall, Translator, Kunioki Yanagishita, Translator Grove/Atlantic $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1597-3 Like Oe, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994 ...

Kenzaburo Oe, who died on March 3 at age 88, was a writer who embodied Japan's “postwar spirit”--which even he acknowledged. I wonder what he would say about the government’s significant ...