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Japan's most famous writer committed suicide after a failed coup attempt – now, new photos add more layers to the haunting act

  • Written by Kirsten Cather, Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
imageJapanese author Yukio Mishima speaks to Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers at Tokyo's military garrison station on Nov. 25, 1970.JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images

Japanese writer Yukio Mishima has long been a favorite of the international press. In a 1966 edition of Life magazine, he was called “Japan’s Dynamo of Letters” and...

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