Kenzaburo Oe, a Nobel laureate whose intense novels and defiant politics challenged a modern Japanese culture that he found morally vacant and dangerously tilted toward the same mind-set that led ...

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. Skip to main content.

TOKYO—Kenzaburo Oe, a Japanese Nobel Prize-winning novelist whose political works addressed what he saw as the danger of failing to learn the lessons of World War II, has died at age 88. Mr. Oe ...