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March 14, 2023

Nobel Prize-Winning Japanese Novelist and Peace Activist Kenzaburo Oe Dies at 88
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The acclaimed Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe has died at the age of 88.
In 1994, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 2014, Democracy Now!
interviewed him in Tokyo about his work, militarism, nuclear
disarmament, Hiroshima and more. He spoke through an interpreter.

Kenzaburo Oe: "I believe that the issue or the experience of nuclear
weapons is something too large for any individual to apologize for, and
it's the responsibility of all humanity to take on board. So rather than
an apology, I believe that what's important is to call for an expression
of the will and the dedication to create a world free of nuclear
weapons."

Click here to see our interview with Kenzaburo Oe.


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