On November 25, 1970, Yukio Mishima, the famous Japanese writer whose life was as much publicized as Earnest Hemingway's committed Hara-kiri in a military head-quarters in Tokyo. He was only forty-five and seemed to have the kind of life most writers dreamed about---international fame, wealth, a wife and children, a home of his own design-and yet he gave it all up not in a rash outburst but in a public suicide planned in great details months before.
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On November 25, 1970, Yukio Mishima, the famous Japanese writer whose life was as much publicized as Earnest Hemingway's committed Hara-kiri in a military head-quarters in Tokyo. He was only forty-five and seemed to have the kind of life most writers dreamed about---international fame, wealth, a wife and children, a home of his own design-and yet he gave it all up not in a rash outburst but in a public suicide planned in great details months before.