Yukio Mishima–extra

Yukio Mishima–extra

[...]he lived through the chaos of the Second World War and witnessed the bombing of Tokyo, describing later how he feigned symptoms at an army medical to avoid military service. With one of four student members of his Tatenokai with whom he had earlier kidnapped a serving general, Yukio Mishima com...

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Published in:British journal of psychiatry 2011-10, Vol.199 (4), p.274-274
Main Authors: Humphreys, Martin, Stokes, Henry Scott
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Bombing
Forensic psychiatry
Forensic science
Military service
Psychiatry
Suicide
World War II
Writers
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Summary:[...]he lived through the chaos of the Second World War and witnessed the bombing of Tokyo, describing later how he feigned symptoms at an army medical to avoid military service. With one of four student members of his Tatenokai with whom he had earlier kidnapped a serving general, Yukio Mishima committed ritual suicide by disembowelling, a companion then beheading him. Martin Humpheys is senior lecturer in forensic psychiatry at the University of Birmingham and Henry Scott Stokes is an author, journalist and biographer of Yukio Mishima.
ISSN:0007-1250
1472-1465