Nobel prize-winner Kenzaburo Oe, dead at 88, used words to preach pacifism

FILE PHOTO: Japanese Nobel literature prize winner Kenzaburo Oe makes a speech at a rally against a possible restart of nuclear reactors in Tokyo, Japan June 6, 2012. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo

TOKYO (Reuters) -Kenzaburo Oe, who won Japan its second Nobel Prize for literature with books about pacifism and his disabled son, has died.

His death, on March 3 at the age of 88, was due to old age, his publisher Kodansha said.