A century after he was born and 55 years after he met his grisly end, we still find Yukio Mishima’s works compelling and ...

It is hard to imagine the brilliant novelist Yukio Mishima taking a driving test, but he did in 1962, eight years before his sensational ritual suicide. At the somewhat mature age of 37 ...

The other individual was literary giant Yukio Mishima. Osamu, now a 91-year-old resident of Yokkaichi, is still searching for meaning behind his brother’s death in the Mishima incident.

In 1970, author and poet Yukio Mishima tied up the commandant of a Tokyo military base and stepped onto the balcony. He read his prepared speech to the bewildered soldiers below, confused by the ...

In attendance were friends such as writers Yukio Mishima and Junichiro Tanizaki. Later, in the autobiography he wrote when he was 49, Keene counted the experience as one of the greatest joys of ...

He was 83. Shinoyama, whose real name was Michinobu Shinoyama, also photographed influential author Yukio Mishima at his request shortly before he committed ritual suicide by disembowelment in 1970.