Yukio Mishima

Books Culture Reflections

Kaleidoscope Japan: A Nation Through the Lens of its Literature by Richard Nathan

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he completed the race with a time of 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours and 32 minutes, during which he had six children and ten grandchildren

Culture Politics

The Provocateur: Reconsidering Shintaro Ishihara

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Ishihara helped to mould the era, and the era helped to mould him

Culture Reflections

Burn On, Joe! A 1960s Manga Icon Lifts Spirits Today

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“Old man, I’m begging you… let me carry on… until there’s nothing left of me but white ashes,..”

Articles Culture

Mishima in the Twenty First Century

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Can you imagine best-selling novelist Haruki Murakami leading a coup attempt against Japanese Prime Minister Suga?

Articles Culture

The Return of Yukio Mishima

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“It’s not an accident that Don Quixote encounters strange things,” he mused. “It’s caused by his personality… I’m a Don Quixote.”

Culture Reflections Shuji Terayama

The Gambler Vs. The Bodybuilder: Shuji Terayama Meets Yukio Mishima

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Strangely enough, it is the approach of the iconoclastic Terayama that seems more in tune with traditional Japanese aesthetics

Culture Reflections Shuji Terayama

P***ing in the Churchyard: Terayama, Yoko Ono and The Beatles

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Mishima spent much of the time examining the hysterical response of young women in the audience, which he found mystifying.

Culture Non-fiction

New Book: “On Kurosawa – A Tribute to the Master Director”

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My latest book “On Kurosawa – A Tribute to the Master Director” explores AK’s work and life

Articles Culture

We’d Love to Change Your Head: Japan’s Beatlemanic Moment

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Into this maelstrom came The Beatles, the biggest act on the planet and symbol of youthful hedonism

Culture Reflections

R.I.P. Bowie: “Like some cat from Japan…”

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David Bowie and Yukio Mishima both staged their own deaths as pieces of performance art.