New Statesman9d
Social media was never ethical
The Japanese writer and nationalist, a darling of the US far right, was haunted by the aesthetics of self-destruction.
Genius, madman or both? Japanese literary icon Yukio Mishima died leading a coup. He would have been 100 today
The life and death of acclaimed writer Yukio Mishima is a cautionary reminder of the complex, sometimes dangerous ...
The New Yorker13d
The Entanglements of Yukio Mishima
From the daily newsletter: a selection of Yukio Mishima novels. Plus: Emily Witt on the L.A. wildfires; Justin Chang’s Oscars ...
The New Yorker17d
Yukio Mishima’s Death Cult
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 ...
allthatsinteresting18d
Oda Nobunaga, The Fierce Warrior Who Became Japan’s First ‘Great Unifier’
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.