University Of Tokyo Receives Oe Manuscripts
Preeminent Japanese writer Oe Kenzaburo has deposited more than 10,000 pages of handwritten manuscripts and other documents to his alma mater, the University of Tokyo.
Officials say the documents were being kept at the writer's home and a number of publishers.
They include manuscripts of "Lavish are the Dead", released in 1957, and "The Game of Contemporaneity", released in 1979.
The university's Faculty of Letters plans to establish a research center for modern Japanese literature, with Oe's works at its core.
The officials say the university is the first public institution in Japan to receive a bulk deposit of the writer's manuscripts.
Oe, who was born in 1935, has been a major figure in Japan's literary scene since the mid-1950s. In 1994, he became the second Japanese person to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.