One of the important contents of Kenzaburo Oe's "political" consciousness is his attitude towards the Mikado system. It goes without saying that his attitude towards the emperor system is not immutable. When I was in primary school, I was slapped or punched by the headmaster because I was not careful when I looked at the photos of the emperor in Feng 'an Hall every morning. This may indicate that there is some kind of seed against power hidden in his young mind. Japan was defeated, and after hearing the broadcast that the emperor announced his surrender, he made up his mind to die for the emperor. This shows that the school's long-term ideological education has played a role in him. But his attitude towards the emperor system was mainly formed after the war. He was only 10 years old when Japan surrendered. In the critical period of the formation of world outlook, he accepted the democratic thought announced by the new constitution and the increasingly strong democratic atmosphere in society, which prompted him to become a democrat. "The so-called Democrats may be my ideal in life. I intend to live with all kinds of authorities on the ground and in the sky as much as possible ... I am politically opposed to the emperor system because I want to be a Democrat. "

An interview between Kenzaburo Oe and Gilp Corps-this can be said to be a declaration of his political attitude.

Among the novels reflecting his "political" consciousness, 196 1' s Seventeen Years Old and Death of a Political Juvenile-The Second Half of Seventeen Years Old, published in the literary world, occupy an important position. Both of these works are based on the political incident of1June, 960 in which the Japanese right-wing group, Youth Yamaguchi, affiliated to the Great Japan Patriotic Party, assassinated Asanuma Inejirō, the chairman of the Socialist Party. They sharply exposed and severely condemned the behavior of political thugs, which was seriously threatened by Japanese right-wing forces, forcing Literary World magazine to temporarily publish an apology advertisement, but The Death of a Political Boy still could not be included in various short stories published later.

Kenzaburo Oe is a persistent person. As long as he has determined a certain point of view, he refuses to change it easily, even if he meets any resistance. When the above two novels were in trouble, the author himself never gave in. Not only that, he continued to fight against the emperor system in his later novels. In a sense, when he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Japanese government decided to award him the Cultural Medal. His immediate refusal was also due to his "political" consciousness.