Japanese Activists

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Yukio Mishima, Joi Ito, Ryoichi Sasakawa, Masaru Emoto, Y?hei Sasakawa, Hiroko Nagata, Toshio Tamogami, Raicho Hiratsuka, Seiji Yoshida, Takeshi Kaik?, Nissho Inoue, Makoto Oda, Shidzue Kat?, Yasuji Kaneko, Yoshioka Yayoi, Yasuko Hatoyama, Yuko Tojo, Ryuhei Kawada, Jahana Noboru, Hajime Kawakami, Masakazu Nakai, Shigeji Tsuboi, Beheiren, Karl Ichiro Akiya, Ryu Ota, Tsuneo Mori, Jinzaburo Takagi, Takamure Itsue. Excerpt: Yukio Mishima Mishima Yukio) was the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka Hiraoka Kimitake, January 14, 1925-November 25, 1970), a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor and film director, also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku after a failed coup d' tat. Nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Mishima was internationally famous and is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century, whose avant-garde work displayed a blending of modern and traditional aesthetics that broke cultural boundaries, with a focus on sexuality, death, and political change. Mishima in his childhood (ca. April 1931)Mishima was born in the Yotsuya district of Tokyo (now part of Shinjuku). His father was Azusa Hiraoka, a government official, and his mother, Shizue, was the daughter of a school principal in Tokyo. His paternal grandparents were Jotar? and Natsuko Hiraoka. He had a younger sister named Mitsuko, who died of typhus, and a younger brother named Chiyuki. Mishima's early childhood was dominated by the shadow of his grandmother, Natsu, who took the boy and separated him from his immediate family for several years. Natsu was the illegitimate granddaughter of Matsudaira Yoritaka, the daimyo of Shishido in Hitachi Province, and had been raised in the household of Prince Arisugawa Taruhito; she maintained considerable aristocratic pretensions even after marrying Mishima's gra...