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Yukio Mishima, Terror and Postmodern Japan
Yukio Mishima Terror and Postmodern Japan Author:Richard Appignanesi Suicide by self-evisceration and beheading was the unique ritual code of the samurai. It was notoriously revived by the writer Yukio Mishima on November 25, 1970, after kidnapping a general at sword-point at a Tokyo military base and lecturing its soldiers on mutiny.