Kenzaburo Oe News, Pictures & Buzz

Book Review: ‘The Hole,’ by Hiroko Oyamada  The New York Times

Monocle, Murakami, flash fiction: three takes on modern Japan  Post Magazine

Japanese antinuclear group leader Mikiso Iwasa dies at 91  Kyodo News Plus

Japan A-bomb survivors' group to release 500th newsletter, marking history of support  The Mainichi

The Kingdom That Failed  The New Yorker

Woman who spoke about the Battle of Okinawa as the “Trembling Girl” harassed at home by unknown male visitor  Ryukyushimpo

The parrot can’t hurt you  The Jerusalem Post

How literature can capture the essence of life in a pandemic  San Francisco Chronicle

2020 Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize themed "Joining the Ranks of Contemporaries" is open for entries  PRNewswire

Japanese books to get you through a lockdown  The Japan Times

Write to Heal From Trauma, Loss & Illness: 7 Prompts to Explore Now  Massage Magazine

International Booker Prize 2020 shortlist announced  The Irish Times

Degrees of Restraint — Drinking in Japan During a Disaster — Good Beer Hunting  Michael Kiser

VOX POPULI: Oe's work probes darkest thoughts about people with disabilities : The Asahi Shimbun  Asahi Shimbun

What's Japan's next food trend? It might finally be pulled pork  The Japan Times

'A Mature Woman': The truth squares off against corrupt Japanese establishments  The Japan Times

How the Nobel Prize affects book sales  DW (English)

100-year old physics mystery -Why air bubble appears stuck in thin liquid tube?- solved - Republic World  Republic World

20 Must-Read Short Story Collections by Women in Translation  Book Riot

Let us put an end to Haruki Murakami's decade-long Nobel Prize pilgrimage  The Japan Times

jimmymcgillesq: @lyannaxxh Would recomm~%# Revenge by Yoko Ogawa as a beautiful short story collecti^^ about several interlinked, t… https://t.co/CgFXzGBovo

chantedx: “The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.” ― Kenzaburō Ōe,

LindaAnnStrang: RT @parisreview: “I am the kind of writer who rewrites and rewrites. I am very eager to correct everything.”—Kenzaburo Oe https://t.co/uhjq…

bellaterrabooks: Today in Literary History (Part 31): Events (c*tinued): 🔷1994 Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese writer, is awarded Nobel pr… https://t.co/h3PWzhDOve

ojalart: “I am the kind of writer who rewrites and rewrites. I am very eager to correct everything.”—Kenzaburo Oe https://t.co/p4QbaY13wO

I have a question about English. The following passage is written by a Japanese learner. Is there any grammatically incorrect or unnatural part in the following passase? If so, would you rewrite it? "Tracing back the descent of the fiction writers with lyricism, we can recall Kenzaburo Oe, and Shotaro Yasuoka and Yasunari Kawabata in addition, whose novel indeed presents the taste reflecting that of Shotaro Yasuoka, the lover of learning. His lyricism, however, quite differs from those of writers in the past, as he does never yield to the malice which surrounds the world, but would rather face up aggresively to the problem."

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i will be a japanese major and want a head start for what i should be reading....in english for now