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

Rude gestures are rare on postage stamps, but Ukraine's best known stamp has one. It shows a soldier raising the middle finger to a Russian warship in reference to a stand-off at Snake Island on ...

Don't have an account? Create Account But Trump is also forcing Canadians to do something else: rediscover patriotism. And he may have just done it in time. For a decade, we have been living in ...

Born Kimitake Hiraoka on January 14, 1925, in Tokyo, the boy who would become Yukio Mishima was the son of a prominent civil servant raised by an aristocratic grandmother who demanded a cultured ...