The Economist (US), November 11th, 1995
Yukio Mishima was a Japanese writer, actor and political activist who killed himself on Nov 25, 1970. Mishima's writings attacked the way in which Japan's society had evolved after World War II, and attempted to prove the country was losing its soul with its changes. HE WROTE novels and plays, essays and poems, even a libretto. He was an actor, a body builder, a political activist. Life magazine called him "the Japanese Hemingway"; Yasunari Kawabata, the first Japanese novelist to win a Nobel prize, declared that "a writer of his calibre appears only once every 200 or 300 years." And yet the ...
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