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 ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

One of post-war Japan’s most controversial figures, Yukio Mishima was an author, poet, playwright and actor who became an increasingly vocal far-right nationalist in the 1960s. Disheartened by Japan’s ...

Director Riahipour also acts in the play along with Forough Jalali, Golnoush Shafiei Makvand, and Bahar Nazari. Mishima wrote the play in 1954, which appeared in his “Five Modern Noh Plays”. It ...

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, ...

A long-forgotten short work penned by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) when he was a budding novelist in his 20s will soon see the light of day again after more than 70 years. The internationally acclaimed ...