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 ...

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. 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?

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 ...

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 ...

"Marx and Freud are the demon progeny of Western rationalism ... Marx in regard to the future, Freud in regard to the past." So wrote Yukio Mishima in the introduction to his characteristically ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Japanese have a storied tradition of writer suicides, but the reams of foreshadowing and grand-gesture media spectacle of Yukio Mishima’s outro set something of a gold standard. On November 25, ...

This month marks 50 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – events that left an indelible mark not only on Japan, but on the global psyche. The new documentary Japanese Avant-Garde ...