What drove one of Japan’s most acclaimed authors to raise a personal militia, and take a high-ranking general hostage in an attempted nationalist coup d’état?
A youth who found excitement only in books, Mishima Yukio became a brilliant author who challenged his country’s sexual mores – until the day his life became stranger than fiction.
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