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The Death of Yukio Mishima

25/11/2014 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, The Death of Yukio Mishima

What drove the Japanese writer and film-maker Yukio Mishima to kill himself?

What drove the Japanese writer and filmmaker Yukio Mishima to kill himself on 25t November 1970?

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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