Minutes after speaking to Japanese Self-Defence Force soldiers at Tokyo’s military garrison station, Mishima committed ritual suicide by disembowelment (Getty) As an example he said that in the ...

A Life in Four Chapters” finally got a screening in Japan, at the recent Tokyo International Film Festival.  It had remained ...

MITO--A remark by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) forever changed the life of a student who had invited the famed author to speak at Ibaraki University here half a century ago. Takeyasu Onose, now 77, has ...

Examining the canon of critical musings on Yukio Mishima, Marguerite Yourcenar’s work might be favorably compared alongside Henry Scott-Stokes, John Nathan and Damian Flanagan’s biographies. Though ...

Yukio Mishima remains one of Japan’s most eminent and controversial public figures, even nearing fifty years after his notorious public suicide. His work as an author, essayist, actor, and director ...

I knew Mishima Yukio very well. Now, so does the whole world, not so much for his books which are marvelous and multitudinous in their variegation, but because on November 25 he walked into the ...

Jan 14 will mark the anniversary of the birth of one of modern Japan’s most famous, controversial, and mysterious personalities. Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) is regarded as one of 20th-century Japan’s ...

On the 40th anniversary of Mishima’s death, Peter Galvin reflects on the life of the notorious Japanese literary figure and the fate of the film he inspired. On the 25th November 1970 Yukio Mishima, ...

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Forty-five years ago this week — at just after 10 a.m. on the bright, cold morning of Nov. 25, 1970 — a telephone rang at the Tokyo home of popular enka singer Hideo Murata. On the line was author ...