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 ...

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 ...

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?

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The play should be like a gorgeous decorator cake,” wrote about his adaptation of originally a 1930s pulp novel by Edogawa Rampo. “But when you look carefully at the cake, it is crawling with maggots ...

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.