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Japan's most famous writer committed suicide after a failed coup attempt – now, new photos add more layers to the haunting act

Japanese author Yukio Mishima speaks to Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers at Tokyo's military garrison station on Nov. 25, 1970. JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images The prolific writer was also an ...
Bay Area Reporter

Yukio Mishima’s ‘Voices of the Fallen Heroes’ – Stories from the depths of human experience

The remarkable new short story collection by Yukio Mishima, “Voices of the Fallen Heroes and Other Stories” is newly translated and published 55 years after his very public death in 1970. Never before ...
The Financial Times

From the archive: I trained with the Tatenokai

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This story is part of the FT Weekend Magazine’s Archives Issue. One of the puzzles which remains after the ...
as.com

Heihachi Mishima is alive and kicking in Tekken 8 and will be the next DLC fighter

One of the most iconic fighters from one of the most popular fighting sagas of all time refuses to die and is back in Tekken 8. In the video in question, we can see how, after Kazuya was defeated by ...
Mail & Guardian

Mishima’s masterpiece reborn

Oddly, the spiritual heart of Yukio Mishima’s grandiose four-part literary edifice The Sea of Fertility is not his native Japan, but the sacred city of Benares (Varanasi) on the River Ganges in India.