The life and death of Yukio Mishima: A tale of astonishing elegance and emotional brutality A novel by one of Japan’s most revered writers is to be published in English for the first time. But ...

Ian Buruma contemplates Yukio Mishima’s violent death alongside a new collection of short stories by the writer, “Voices of the Fallen Heroes,” edited by Stephen Dodd.

Yukio Mishima was a great writer, but the manner of his death, by seppuku, slitting his stomach with a samurai sword, may now be better known to most people than his novels or plays—a pity ...