The writer spent his life cultivating beauty—on the page and in the mirror—only to end it with a samurai-style suicide. Both acts spoke to a long-standing obsession.

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.

Yukio Mishima was born in Tokyo on January 14 1925 ... were dedicated to a single end – Death. He continues: Producing the Zero-model combat plane used by the suicide squadrons, this great ...

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Unlike the supreme commander of the Allied powers during Japan’s postwar occupation, the writer Yukio Mishima, who would quickly become ... But his life has too often been overshadowed by his death, ...

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 ...