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Yukio Mishima enters a Self-Defense Force base and commits ritual suicide (1970)

Copyright Masaru HASHIMOTO

YUKIO MISHIMA He was both a gifted writer and an eccentric with a flair for causing stirs. He looked like a patriotic soldier with muscle armor, but in reality was a narcisist who liked playing soldier. It would have been nice to have seen him as a weak old man.

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