Kenzaburo Oe was the second Japanese writer to receive Nobel Prize for Literature?

Yes, Kenzaburo Oe is the second Japanese writer to receive Nobel Prize for Literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994 for his work that "with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today". He is the only Japanese writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature since Yasunari Kawabata in 1968.