Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Laureate and Critic of Postwar Japan, Dies at 88
Briefly

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 to catastrophe in World War II, died on March 3.He was 88.His publisher, Kodansha, announced the death on Monday.
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