The Japanese writer and nationalist, a darling of the US far right, was haunted by the aesthetics of self-destruction.

The life and death of acclaimed writer Yukio Mishima is a cautionary reminder of the complex, sometimes dangerous ...

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When the soldiers, instead of rising up, jeered at him, Mishima killed himself in the classic samurai fashion: performing hara-kiri, or seppuku (as the Japanese more commonly call it), by plunging ...

Powerful lords and their samurai followers fought against each other for dominance ... Nobunaga defeated his uncle at the Battle of Kiyosu Castle and forced him to die by ritual suicide, or seppuku.

Depending on how you’re discovered and how bad your actions were, you may have to commit seppuku or even face having your whole family executed, which ends the game. Way of the Samurai has its ...