Yukio Mishima’s lifelong death wish

Yukio Mishima was one of modern Japan ’s most important cultural figures.

His life has too often been overshadowed by his death, at least in the West .

His weirdly flaccid coup attempt in 1970 that culminated in his suicide by hara-kiri has been romanticised by reactionary freaks.

Yukio Mishima killed himself with a Japanese sword in 1970 .

His suicide was the result of a coup d'état to restore imperial divinity in Japan .

The author loathed what he perceived as the estrangement of body and spirit in modern society’.