Kenzaburo Oe, the Nobel prize-winning author who warned against the dangers of nuclear power and became known as a standard bearer of postwar literature, died of natural causes in the early hours of March 3.
The original copy of “The Game of Contemporaneity,” released in 1979 (Provided by the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology and Faculty of Letters)
Nobel Prize-winning writer Kenzaburo Oe has deposited more than 10,000 pages of handwritten manuscripts and other materials to the University of Tokyo for a planned research institute at his alma mater.
It is one of the largest handwritten draft collections for one novelist, according to the University of Tokyo’s announcement.
The school plans to keep and manage the materials at the tentatively named Oe Kenzaburo Bunko research center within its Faculty of Letters. Academics both in and outside Japan will be able to use the articles as reference materials.