With his powerful novels and essays, Mr. Oe tried to ensure that Japan learned the lessons of its 20th-century militarism. By Daniel Lewis Kenzaburo Oe, a Nobel laureate whose intense novels and ...

Kenzaburo Oe, one of Japan’s most prominent postwar writers, died March 3. He won the Nobel Prize in 1994 for what the committee called his creation of worlds “where life and myth condense to ...

TOKYO, March 13 (Reuters) - Kenzaburo Oe, who won Japan its second Nobel Prize for literature with books about the horrors of war and about his disabled son, has died at the age of 88. Oe also ...

Reflecting upon their misery and mistreatment gave Oe the strength to search for the light in his own personal moment of darkness when his first child was born with a severe head abnormality.