A Life in Four Chapters” finally got a screening in Japan, at the recent Tokyo International Film Festival.  It had remained ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yukio Mishima remains one of Japan’s most eminent and controversial public figures, even nearing fifty years after his notorious public suicide. His work as an author, essayist, actor, and director ...

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Update October 1, 2025: A year after Schrader thought that "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters" would screen at the 2024 Tokyo ...

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 ...

This is a whale of a book — both unusually massive and extremely informative and stimulating. The title means “mask” in Latin and is probably an allusion to Yukio Mishima’s first full-length novel, ...