SOURCE: "Japan Asks Why a Prophet Bothers," in The New York Times, November 6, 1994, Section 4, p. 5.
[In the following essay, Sterngold discusses Ōe's decision to reject Japan's Imperial Order of Culture—its highest cultural honor—and examines the Japanese public's reaction, which ranged from apathy to harsh opprobrium.]
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