Nobel laureate Oe believes military order behind mass suicides

OSAKA, Japan - Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe arrives at the Osaka District Court on Nov. 9 to testify in a hearing on a suit filed against him. Yutaka Umezawa, 90, who was the garrison commander on Zamami Island in the Okinawa island chain during World War II, is seeking to halt the publication of three books by Oe which Umezawa argues wrongly state that military officers on Zamami and Tokashiki islands in Okinawa Prefecture ordered civilians to commit mass suicide in 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa.

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