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YUKIO MISHIMA

Made at a time when Japan was still grappling with Yukio Mishima¡¯s legacy, Paul Schrader¡¯s biopic ¡°Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters¡± was blocked from screening in the country for decades.
CULTURE / Film
Nov 6, 2025
A 40-year wait for ¡®Mishima¡¯ ends at TIFF
Paul Schrader¡¯s 1985 biopic of the radical author Yukio Mishima finds its Japanese audience at last.
June is Pride Month, which means it¡¯s the perfect time to get acquainted with how sexual minorities have been represented in Japanese fiction if you¡¯re not familiar with these narratives already.
CULTURE / Books
Jun 11, 2025
Pride and prose: Novels that illuminate queer lives in Japan
From Yukio Mishima and Haruki Murakami to Li Kotomi and Akira Otani, dive into Japanese fiction¡¯s LGBTQ+ narratives in honor of Pride Month.
Author Yukio Mishima accepts the Arts Festival Award in the drama category at the 20th Arts Festival Award Ceremony on Jan. 22, 1966.
LIFE / Bilingual
May 16, 2024
Unraveling the Japanese prose of Yukio Mishima
Achieving success at a young age, Yukio Mishima¡¯s creative use of compound verbs and kanji stand out in his writing.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
May 15, 2022
Yukio Mishima¡¯s dark satire obscures the light of humanity
¡®Beautiful Star,¡¯ a novel that the writer considered to be his masterpiece, is an absurd parody of society.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jan 8, 2022
Exciting translations and books about Japan to bookmark for 2022
From Yoko Tawada¡¯s ¡°Scattered All Over the Earth¡± to Sayaka Murata¡¯s ¡°Life Ceremony,¡± this year¡¯s new releases are sure to brighten up your 2022.
Japan Times
51³Ô¹ÏÍø / History / 51³Ô¹ÏÍø TIMES GONE BY
Nov 25, 2020
Japan Times 1970: Writer Yukio Mishima commits ritual suicide
100 YEARS AGO
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Nov 21, 2020
A passion project that became a literary journey through Kyoto
¡°Kyoto: A Literary Guide¡¯ was painstakingly collated by a group of friends whose dedication to studying the city¡¯s literary legacy spans 10 years.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 26, 2020
¡®Mishima: The Last Debate¡¯: Careful revival of a battle of wits
It was the title match of the decade: the rumble in the academic jungle. On May 13, 1969, literary titan Yukio Mishima strutted onstage in front of a 1,000-strong audience at the University of Tokyo to debate with representatives of the All Campus Joint Struggle Committee, otherwise known as Zenkyoto....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jan 25, 2020
Is Japan enjoying a new literary golden age?
The case for Yes
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS ABOUT 51³Ô¹ÏÍø
Jan 3, 2020
Japanese Classics series: Vintage Classics gives timeless Japanese literature a look for the new decade
The new Japanese Classics series from Vintage Classics presents five seminal Japanese novels, from Junichiro Tanizaki to Yoko Ozawa, with stunning cover art by Japanese illustrator Yuko Shimizu.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jan 2, 2020
An invisible baseball curves through Japanese literature
There¡¯s a long history of pivotal baseball anecdotes in Japanese literature, with well-known writers such as Yukio Mishima and Haruki Murakami incorporating their love of the game into their work.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR 51³Ô¹ÏÍøOPHILES
Oct 26, 2019
¡®The Decay of the Angel¡¯: Overshadowed by the death of its author
In ¡®The Decay of the Angel,¡¯ Yukio Mishima concludes his ¡®The Sea of Fertility¡¯ tetralogy with musings on modern Japan, the loss of beauty and old age.
CULTURE / Books / RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS ABOUT 51³Ô¹ÏÍø
Sep 7, 2019
¡®Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist¡¯: The brain behind the coup
In ¡®Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist,¡¯ Andrew Rankin takes us to the less-visited corners of Mishima¡¯s complete works, the intellectual essays that were the fount for the ideas that played themselves out in his novels.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Sep 1, 2019
Making sense of the oppressiveness of summer in Japan
Japan has a venerable tradition of quirky and inventive means of escape from the oppression of summer, as well as from rigid social constraints and conventions. Some of them take distinctly weird forms. In Edogawa Ranpo¡¯s classic story, ¡°The Stalker in the Attic¡± (1925), for example, the eccentric protagonist...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 31, 2019
¡®Life for Sale¡¯: Yukio Mishima¡¯s comically psychedelic take on the adventure novel
¡®Life for Sale¡¯ ¡ª first serialized in Weekly Playboy in 1968 ¡ª was, for long years, dismissed as mere ¡®entertainment.¡¯ Yet the surprising bestseller is a terrific example of Mishima¡¯s fecund imagination at its most free-wheeling and unfettered best.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 3, 2019
How Japan¡¯s modern literature came under Nietzsche¡¯s spell
To truly understand some of 20th-century Japan¡¯s most iconic literary works, you have to go back to ancient Greek tragedy and the ¡®Dionysian¡¯ philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR 51³Ô¹ÏÍøOPHILES
Aug 3, 2019
¡®Mishima: A Vision of the Void¡¯: Remembering a literary giant as he would have wanted
Marguerite Yourcenar¡¯s literary biography of Yukio Mishima delves into the enigmatic author as well as the social conditions that shaped his rise and fall.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 6, 2019
Hot new Japan book releases for the sweltering summer
Time travel, yakuza, street photography and more feature in the best upcoming J-Lit releases for this summer (and beyond).
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR 51³Ô¹ÏÍøOPHILES
May 4, 2019
Come face to face with human mortality in Yukio Mishima¡¯s ¡®The Temple of Dawn¡¯ ¡ª review
A strange and uneven novel, Yukio Mishima¡¯s ¡®The Temple of Dawn,¡¯ the third volume in the ¡®Sea of Fertility¡¯ tetralogy, is an elegy to the loss of pureness in the Japanese national spirit.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Apr 27, 2019
Yukio Mishima¡¯s attempt at personal branding comes to light in the rediscovered ¡®Star¡¯
In ¡®Star,¡¯ Yukio Mishima confronts issues of celebrity, youth and aging in hypercharged and manically subjective first-person prose.
Japan scientists identify clusters of protein believed to trigger Alzheimer¡¯s disease
A team of researchers said they found a ¡°seed¡± that accelerates the amyloid beta accumulation process in the brain, naming it ¡°Peak 1 amyloid beta,¡± as seen in a mouse's brain.
Indian brothers make manga debut in Japan
Two Indian brothers made their manga debut in Japan with "Kung Fu Kung Fool" ¡ª an action-comedy series that follows the adventures of a notorious thief and a young boy.
Japan weighs regulating Pokemon cards amid trading mania
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Low-income families in Japan cut food and air conditioning during summer break
Yumiko Watanabe, the chairperson of nonprofit Kidsdoor, explains the results of a survey in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on July 1.
Iran strikes on CIA facilities prompt questions about possible Russian role
Iranian drones are displayed in an undisclosed location in Iran, in this handout image obtained on Jan. 13, 2025.U.S. officials have acknowledged that Russia has ?provided targeting ?and other support for Iran in its drone strikes on U.S. targets in the Persian Gulf region.
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Japan reveals hint of new defense spending target in fiscal blueprint
The Self-Defense Forces' Type 16 mobile combat vehicle fires during a joint live-fire drill with U.S. Marines as part of the annual Resolute Dragon exercises in Yufu, Oita Prefecture, on June 28.

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