Japanese author Yukio Mishima speaks to Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers at Tokyo's military garrison station on Nov. 25, 1970. JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images The prolific writer was also an ...
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November 25 this year marks the forty-seventh anniversary of the so-called Mishima Incident—one of the most shocking happenings of postwar Japanese history. What happened in the space of 80 ...
A JAPANESE militia leader disembowelled himself and ordered his own beheading in a ritual suicide after trying to seize power in a failed coup. Yukio Mishima attempted to rally the army to overthrow ...
“Human life is limited, but I would like to live forever,” read the note Yukio Mishima left on his desk shortly before he left home for the final time. Mishima, who would have turned 100 today, often ...