The Death of Yukio Mishima

Published: Nov. 25, 2014, 8:50 a.m.

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On 25 November 1970 the acclaimed Japanese author and film-maker Yukio Mishima killed himself in a very public way. Listen to his friend and biographer Harry Scott Stokes remembering the man and his beliefs.

(Photo: Yukio Mishima with some of his young followers. Credit: AFP)

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