The protagonist of one work by this author is variously called "Pig", "Mole" and "Captain", and hopes to use a quarry as the title means of escaping a nuclear war.
In one work by this author, the protagonist is congratulated when he slaps a girl on the butt, and later he asks the same girl if he can feel her breast or butt to ease his pain. Two unnamed characters in a work by this author  tell the protagonist that the other has only six months left to live because of cancer. The protagonist of another work by this author, believes that he has discovered a new species of spider, which uses lamps to catch moths; that character fails to take advantage of an extra-uterine pregnancy to escape, because he wants to tell someone about his trick to catch water. The protagonist of one work by this author is variously called "Pig", "Mole" and "Captain", and hopes to use a quarry as the title means of escaping a nuclear war. A typhoon buries the husband and son of the title character of a work by this author, in which the entomologist Niki Jumpei is forced to clear sand from that title character's house. For 10 points, name this author of The Ark Sakura and The Woman in the Dunes. 
In one work by this author, the protagonist is congratulated when he slaps a girl on the butt, and later he asks the same girl if he can feel her breast or butt to ease his pain.
Abe Kobo [or Abe Kimifusa; prompt on "Kobo" or "Kimifusa"] 