Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, he urged Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to “halt plans to restart nuclear power plants and instead abandon nuclear energy”.
She stands for the government in relation to the lawsuit relating to Yasukuni Shrine, and serves as an attorney for the plaintiff concerning the "Contest to kill 100 people using a sword" that allegedly occurred during the Second Sino-Japanese War, as well as the commanders who fought in the Battle of Okinawa and a bereaved family suing Kenzaburō Ōe and Iwanami Shoten for their defamation of character towards the commanders.
Published in English as part of two short anthologies of Japanese war stories: The Shadow of Sunrise: Selected Stories of Japan and the War (Kodansha International Ltd., Tokyo (1966), and The Catch and Other War Stories edited and introduced by Shoichi Sacki (Kodansha International, (1981), both of which include three other stories by Tamiki Hara, Fumiko Hayashi and Kenzaburō Ōe.
People associated with the anti-nuclear movement include: Jinzaburo Takagi, Haruki Murakami, Kenzaburō Ōe, Nobuto Hosaka, Mizuho Fukushima, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Tetsunari Iida.
The Kenzaburō Ōe Prize (大江健三郎賞) is a Japanese literary award sponsored by Kodansha (講談社) and established in 2006 to commemorate both the 100th anniversary of Kodansha's establishment and 50th anniversary of the writing life of Kenzaburō Ōe (大江健三郎).
Among the founding members are Nobel laureate Kenzaburō Ōe, historian Shunsuke Tsurumi, and authors Hisae Sawachi, Katsuto Uchihashi and Keiko Ochiai.