The Death of Yukio Mishima
What drove the Japanese writer and film-maker Yukio Mishima to kill himself?
Witness History: Archive 2014 · BBC World Service
November 25, 20148m 53s
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Show Notes
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)