The writer spent his life cultivating beauty—on the page and in the mirror—only to end it with a samurai-style suicide. Both ...

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The other individual was literary giant Yukio Mishima. Osamu ... was probably the first experience that aroused and fomented patriotism in my brother,” Osamu said. Masakatsu entered the ...