The other individual was literary giant Yukio Mishima. Osamu, now a 91-year-old resident of Yokkaichi, is still searching for meaning behind his brother’s death in the Mishima incident.

It is hard to imagine the brilliant novelist Yukio Mishima taking a driving test, but he did in 1962, eight years before his sensational ritual suicide. At the somewhat mature age of 37 ...

In 1970, author and poet Yukio Mishima tied up the commandant ... not always being in the birth of something, but also its death. Mishima’s worldview was extreme, but the work he produced ...