A 1969 interview with writer Yukio Mishima ((三島 由紀夫), who committed seppuku (切腹) in november 1970 after a failed coup attempt at the Tokyo headquarters of the Eastern Command of Japan's Self-Defense Forces. Literary Mishima was well known for novels as "The temple of the Golden Pavilion", about a monk that burns down the Kinkakuji (Golden pavilion) in Kyoto, and "The Sea of fertility" tetralogy. Amongst his many plays and novels there is a play called "My Friend Hitler" (わが友ヒットラー), which is both openly fascist and anti-fascist.
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Yukio Mishima in English interview
A 1969 interview with writer Yukio Mishima ((三島 由紀夫), who committed seppuku (切腹) in november 1970 after a failed coup attempt at the Tokyo headquarters of the Eastern Command of Japan's Self-Defense Forces. Literary Mishima was well known for novels as "The temple of the Golden Pavilion", about a monk that burns down the Kinkakuji (Golden pavilion) in Kyoto, and "The Sea of fertility" tetralogy. Amongst his many plays and novels there is a play called "My Friend Hitler" (わが友ヒットラー), which is both openly fascist and anti-fascist.
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