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Memorial ceremony for novelist Kenzaburo Oe

People offer flowers for the late Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe on Sept. 13, 2023, at a memorial ceremony held in Tokyo six months after his death.

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Memorial ceremony for novelist Kenzaburo Oe

People offer flowers for the late Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe on Sept. 13, 2023, at a memorial ceremony held in Tokyo six months after his death.

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Memorial ceremony for novelist Kenzaburo Oe

People pray for the late Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe on Sept. 13, 2023, at a memorial ceremony held in Tokyo six months after his death.

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Nobel-winning author, peace activist Kenzaburo Oe dies at 88

Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe speaks during an interview at his home in Tokyo in July 2015. The winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature, who was also known as a proponent of Japan's pacifist Constitution and against nuclear power, Oe died of old age on March 3, 2023.

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Nobel-winning author, peace activist Kenzaburo Oe dies at 88

Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe is pictured after attending the award ceremony for the 1994 Nobel Prize recipients in Stockholm in December 1994. Oe, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, known for being a proponent of Japan's pacifist Constitution and against nuclear power, died of old age on March 3, 2023.

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Nobel-winning author, peace activist Kenzaburo Oe dies at 88

Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe speaks during a rally protesting against the Japanese government's security policy held in front of the parliament building in Tokyo in September 2015. The winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature, who was also known as a proponent of Japan's pacifist Constitution and against nuclear power, Oe died of old age on March 3, 2023.

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Nobel-winning author, peace activist Kenzaburo Oe dies at 88

Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe delivers his Nobel lecture at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm in December 1994, as he was awarded Nobel Prize in Literature for that year. Oe, a proponent of Japan's pacifist Constitution and against nuclear power, died of old age on March 3, 2023.

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800 people offer condolences for late peace activist Oda

TOKYO, Japan - Kenzaburo Oe, the 1994 winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, attends the memorial service for Makoto Oda, a writer and peace activist who succumbed to stomach cancer July 30 at the age of 75, at Tokyo's Aoyama funeral hall on Aug. 4. Oda led the anti-Vietnam War campaign in Japan.

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Writers Oe, Ikezawa at open dialogue in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe (L) and Japanese writer Natsuki Ikezawa hold an open dialogue in Tokyo on Nov. 29, 2014.

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Writer Oe speaks against nuclear plants

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe speaks during an antinuclear power event in Tokyo on Sept. 23, 2014.

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Protest against enhanced role for Japan's armed forces

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 1, 2014, to protest against the Cabinet's decision to allow the Self-Defense Forces to defend allies under armed attack in collective self-defense. The decision "has overturned Japan's pacifist Constitution," Oe said.

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Nobel laureate Oe speaks in pro-Article 9 event

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Nobel laureate in literature Kenzaburo Oe delivers a speech at an event in Tokyo on June 10, 2014, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Article 9 Association, a civic organization seeking to maintain the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution.

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Muslims in Yinchuan

BEIJING, China - A man gets a shave before prayers at a mosque in Yinchuan in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on April 29, 2014, as other Muslims cleanse themselves. (Photo by Kenzaburo Fukuhara)

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Nobel laureate Oe speaks against collective defense

TOKYO, Japan - Kenzaburo Oe, the 1994 Nobel laureate in literature, speaks at a rally in Tokyo on April 8, 2014, against exercising the right to collective self-defense.

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Protesters seek elimination of nuclear power in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Toyohiro Akiyama (front R) and novelist Kenzaburo Oe (front 2nd from R) join a march calling for the elimination of nuclear power generation in Japan on March 15, 2014 in Tokyo. About 5,500 people gathered at Hibiya Park in Tokyo before the march.

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Nationwide antinuclear network

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe (C) speaks during a press conference at the Diet in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2012. A group led by Oe and academy award-winning musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, among others, announced that they have launched a nationwide network seeking passage of a bill to abolish all nuclear power plants in Japan.

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Nationwide antinuclear network

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe speaks during a press conference at the Diet in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2012. A group led by Oe and academy award-winning musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, among others, announced that they have launched a nationwide network seeking passage of a bill to abolish all nuclear power plants in Japan.

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Antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe speaks at an anti-nuclear power plant rally, called for by a group led by Oe and other celebrities, at Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on July 16, 2012. The assembly, dubbed "100,000 People's Assembly to say Goodbye to Nuclear Power Plants," drew a crowd of around 170,000 people, according to organizers.

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Antinuclear civic group submits signatures to gov't

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe (2nd from R) and other members of an antinuclear civic group submit some of the roughly 7.5 million signatures it has gathered calling for the abolition of nuclear power plants to Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura (R) in Tokyo on June 15, 2012.

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Nobel laureate Oe at French book fair

PARIS, France - Japanese Nobel laureate for literature Kenzaburo Oe (L) speaks during a debate session of ''Salon du livre de Paris'' in Paris, the largest book fair in France, on March 16, 2012.

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Antinuclear power rally

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel Prize in literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe speaks as about 12,000 people joined a rally calling for abandoning nuclear power in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on Feb. 11, 2012.

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Novelist Oe, journalist Kamata in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe (R) and journalist Satoshi Kamata in Tokyo on Feb. 8, 2012, unveil a document that asks leaders of the municipalities hosting nuclear power plants not to resume operations of idled reactors.

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Nobel laureate Oe

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Tokyo on April 22, 2011, shows Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe. Twenty-two Japanese writers, including Oe, have been invited to France's largest book fair, the Salon du Livre, to be held in March in Paris, the fair's organizer said on Jan. 11, 2012.

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Nobel laureate Oe at antinuclear rally in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature, speaks at a rally against nuclear power in Tokyo's Hibiya Park on Dec. 10, 2011.

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Novelist Oe speaks at antinuclear power event

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel Prize-winning writer Kenzaburo Oe delivers a speech at an antinuclear power plant protest gathering at Meiji Park in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2011.

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Writers, musicians call for farewell to nuclear power

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe (L) and writer Keiko Ochiai attend a press conference in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Sept. 6, 2011. They released a statement calling on Japan's new government led by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to bid farewell to nuclear power. Writers and musicians, including Oe and Ochiai as well as popular musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, will hold an antinuclear rally at Meiji Park in Tokyo on Sept. 19, aiming to mobilize 50,000 people while collecting 10 million signatures for denuclearization, in the wake of the nuclear emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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Nobel laureate Oe calls for reducing U.S. bases in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - Kenzaburo Oe, the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature, speaks at a meeting of the (Constitution) Article 9 Association in Tokyo on June 19, 2010, with a photo of the late popular playwright Hisashi Inoue hanging above him. The meeting was held on the 50th anniversary of the automatic enactment of the revised Japan-U.S. Security Treaty on June 19, 1960.

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Nobel laureate Oe wins award in China

BEIJING, China - Writer and Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe (C) receives a bouquet of flowers after receiving a Chinese literary award for foreign literary works issued by a major Chinese publisher and other entities at the prize-giving ceremony at a Beijing hotel on Jan. 16.

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Nobel laureate Oe wins award in China

BEIJING, China - Writer and Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe gives a speech after receiving a Chinese literary award for foreign literary works issued by a major Chinese publisher and other entities at the prize-giving ceremony at a Beijing hotel on Jan. 16.

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High court sees military involvement in Okinawa suicides

OSAKA, Japan - Supporters of novelist Kenzaburo Oe celebrate in front of the Osaka High Court in Osaka on Oct. 31 after the court recognized that the Imperial Japanese Army was involved in the mass suicide of civilians during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, dismissing an appeal lodged by a former military officer and the kin of another over a libel suit against Oe and his publisher regarding descriptions in his book.

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Damages suit against Oe over Okinawa battle rejected

OSAKA, Japan - Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe speaks at a news conference in Osaka on March 28 after the Osaka District Court rejected a damage suit filed against him and Iwanami Shoten Publishers over his 1970 essay ''Okinawa Notes.'' The court dismissed two plaintiffs' claim that Oe wrongly stated in his book that military officers ordered civilians in Okinawa Prefecture to commit mass suicide in the closing days of World War II.

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Damages suit against Oe over Okinawa battle rejected

OSAKA, Japan - Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe arrives at the Osaka District Court on March 28 to hear a court ruling on a damage suit filed against him and Iwanami Shoten Publishers over his 1970 essay ''Okinawa Notes.'' The court rejected two plaintiffs' claim that Oe wrongly stated in his book that military officers ordered civilians in Okinawa Prefecture to commit mass suicide in the closing days of World War II.

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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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Thousands appeal to keep Article 9 of Japan's Constitution

TOKYO, Japan - Thousands gathered July 30 at Tokyo's Ariake Colosseum to voice opposition to revising the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. A group of prominent intellectuals, including Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe, organized the meeting.

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Ex-lower house speaker Hara dies at 97

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in July 1986 shows former House of Representatives Speaker Kenzaburo Hara, who died from a heart failure at a Tokyo hospital on Nov. 6. He was 97. Hara, who graduated from Waseda University in 1931 and received a master's degree from the University of Oregon, was first elected to the lower house in 1946 from a constituency in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, and reelected 19 times.

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Intellectuals protest nationalist-authored history text

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel literature prize winner Kenzaburo Oe (L) and Mutsuko Miki, widow of former Prime Minister Takeo Miki, speak at a press conference in Tokyo on March 16 about their statement urging the education ministry not to approve a junior high school history textbook written by nationalist academics. In addition to Oe and Miki, the statement had the support of novelist Hisashi Inoue, photographer Yoshino Oishi and Yoshikazu Sakamoto, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo.

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Former lower house Speaker Hara to quit politics at 93

TOKYO, Japan - Former House of Representatives Speaker Kenzaburo Hara, at 93 the oldest person in the Japanese political world, plans to retire at the end of his current term in the lower house, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) sources said May 8. Hara, elected via proportional representation from western Japan's Kinki regional bloc centering on Osaka, conveyed his intention to quit politics to Takami Eto, joint head of an LDP faction to which Hara belongs, the sources said.

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Ex-lower house speaker Hara dies at 97

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in July 1986 shows former House of Representatives Speaker Kenzaburo Hara, who died from a heart failure at a Tokyo hospital on Nov. 6. He was 97. Hara, who graduated from Waseda University in 1931 and received a master's degree from the University of Oregon, was first elected to the lower house in 1946 from a constituency in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, and reelected 19 times. (Kyodo)

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Thousands appeal to keep Article 9 of Japan's Constitution

TOKYO, Japan - Thousands gathered July 30 at Tokyo's Ariake Colosseum to voice opposition to revising the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. A group of prominent intellectuals, including Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe, organized the meeting. (Kyodo)

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Nobel laureate Oe criticizes base relocation plan

Noble laureate for literature Kenzaburo Oe gives a lecture in Naha, the capital of Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa, on Nov. 23, 2015. On a plan to relocate a key U.S. military base within the prefecture, Oe said it will not lead to a resolution of the base issue in Okinawa, which hosts the bulk of U.S. forces in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protesters surround Diet building, opposing security bills

Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe addresses people rallying in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on Sept. 14, 2015, to protest against government-sponsored security bills that would greatly expand the scope of the Self-Defense Forces' overseas activities. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aims to pass the bills, which have already cleared the House of Representatives, through the House of Councillors later in the week. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Holding walnuts in palms thought to stimulate brain work in China

Photo taken on May 1, 2015, shows a shop in Shanghai selling walnuts, which some Chinese people believe can stimulate brain work when held in their palms, pressing acupressure points. (Photo by Kenzaburo Fukuhara)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Constitution Day rallies highlight stark divide in reform debate

Nobel literature prize laureate Kenzaburo Oe addresses a rally in favor of preserving the war-renouncing Article 9 of Japan's Constitution, at a park in Yokohama on May 3, 2015, the 68th anniversary of the implementation of the supreme law. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gathering to remember late Okudaira's desire for peace

Novelist Kenzaburo Oe (far R) speaks at a meeting in memory of the late Yasuhiro Okudaira, an inaugural member of the Article 9 Association for defending the pacifist Japanese Constitution who died in January 2015 at age 85, at a memorial service in Chofu, Tokyo, on April 3, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel laureate Oe calls for protection of Article 9

Nobel literary laureate Kenzaburo Oe speaks at a meeting of the "Article 9 Association" in Tokyo on March 15, 2015, criticizing the policy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration to draft a series of security-related bills giving the Self-Defense Forces a greater role in activities outside Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Termination of nuclear power is last job: Oe

Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe attends a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on March 10, 2015, in Tokyo. Criticizing the government's policy to resume nuclear power plants, Oe said, "There is no other choice but to create a world without nuclear power generation. It will be my last job to continue appealing for this." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Termination of nuclear power is last job: Oe

Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe (L) and nonfiction writer Satoshi Kamata attend a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on March 10, 2015, in Tokyo. Criticizing the government's policy to resume nuclear power plants, Oe said, "There is no other choice but to create a world without nuclear power generation. It will be my last job to continue appealing for this." Kamata urged the government to hear what displaced people have to say about the future course of society. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Constitution Day rallies highlight stark divide in reform debate

Nobel literature prize laureate Kenzaburo Oe addresses a rally in favor of preserving the war-renouncing Article 9 of Japan's Constitution, at a park in Yokohama on May 3, 2015, the 68th anniversary of the implementation of the supreme law. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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800 people offer condolences for late peace activist Oda

TOKYO, Japan - Kenzaburo Oe, the 1994 winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, attends the memorial service for Makoto Oda, a writer and peace activist who succumbed to stomach cancer July 30 at the age of 75, at Tokyo's Aoyama funeral hall on Aug. 4. Oda led the anti-Vietnam War campaign in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Nobel laureate Oe calls for reducing U.S. bases in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - Kenzaburo Oe, the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature, speaks at a meeting of the (Constitution) Article 9 Association in Tokyo on June 19, 2010, with a photo of the late popular playwright Hisashi Inoue hanging above him. The meeting was held on the 50th anniversary of the automatic enactment of the revised Japan-U.S. Security Treaty on June 19, 1960. (Kyodo)