Sunday, November 25, 2012

25 November 1970 - Yukio Mishima Commits Suicide

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1970 (-)  Writer Yukio Mishima commits suicide by Harakiri at the age of 45 in the headquarters of the Eastern Command of Japan's Self Defense Forces, Tokyo, Japan.
The act was to end in his ritual decapitation by Tatenokai member Masakatsu Morita. Morita, who was rumored to have been Mishima's lover, was unable to perform the decapitation properly: after several failed attempts, he allowed another Tatenokai member, Hiroyasu Koga, to finish the job. After Mishima was decapitated, Morita also attempted to commit seppuku and was beheaded by Koga.

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