Japanese author Yasuoka Shōtarō (安岡章太郎) has passed away; see, for example, the Asahi Shimbun report, Postwar literary giant Yasuoka dies at 92 -- where they note:
Donald Keene, the famed scholar of Japanese literature, called Yasuoka one of the important writers of postwar Japan.Odds and ends have been translated into English -- most recently the Dalkey Archive Press edition of the collection The Glass Slipper; see their publicity page, or get your copy from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. A while back Columbia University Press brought out the collection A View by the Sea; get your copy from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.