MISHIMA, Shizuoka -- On March 11, 89 children at a kindergarten here practiced the "pill bug pose," crouching and covering ...

“What they did is so aberrant.” In contrast, the majority of Japan’s right-wingers praised it as “an action for justice.” Mishima left written instructions for Tate no Kai membe ...

It is hard to imagine the brilliant novelist Yukio Mishima taking a driving test ... the man sometimes described as Japan's greatest "sacred monster" showed up at a remote test center and ...

“And what precisely should be defended has become very ambiguous in today’s Japan.” A few students in the audience raised their hands when Mishima’s speech was over. “I will make a ...