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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japanese author Yukio Mishima speaks to Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers at Tokyo's military garrison station on Nov. 25, 1970 ...

Mishima’s literary lifework in Japanese comprises 42 voluminous tomes plus 2 extra volumes, in the most recent authoritative critical edition of his collected works, published by Shinchōsha from 2000 ...

BIRTH IS THE obvious place to start a life story, but how can Mishima Yukio’s not begin with death? That of Japan’s finest author of the 20th century was both spectacular and absurd. On November 25th ...

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, ...

Japanese nationalists gather today to mark the 30th anniversary of the ritual suicide of the country's most famous postwar novelist, Yukio Mishima, whose extremist views - dismissed as crackpot at the ...

Paul Schrader's 1985 movie is an ambitious, respectful account of the life and work of Yukio Mishima, the prolific Japanese author who made a romantic cult of Japan's lost world of martial glory and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shot of the Golden Pavillion in Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. I’m a writer. I mean, duh. I’m writing this article, aren’t I?

Japanese writer Yukio Mishima has long been a favorite of the international press. In a 1966 edition of Life magazine, he was called “Japan’s Dynamo of Letters” and “the Japanese Hemingway.” Appearing ...

After nearly a quarter century, the paradox of "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters" remains that even though director Paul Schrader went out of his way to make the controversial biopic in Japanese with ...