Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After sending off the novel, Mishima joined four young students who belonged to the ultranationalistic paramilitary Shield Society that he had formed two years ago. For the first time in weeks, the sky over Tokyo was free of smog. When Mishima and his companions reached Ichigaya Hill in western Tokyo, the headquarters of Japan's Eastern Ground Self-Defense Forces, sunshine bathed the midday. Mishima had arrived on the threshold of his life's climactic act. It was the sort of act, Japanese Literary Critic Kenkichi Yamamoto wrote later, that "reached its apex in one pyrotechnic explosion beyond...
...romantic impulse toward death" prompted him to begin writing-and building his body to be worthy of destruction. After publishing his first book at 19-a pretty, sensitive collection of short stories called A Forest in Flower-he finished his studies at Tokyo University and took a job in the Finance Ministry. In 1948 he quit the ministry, changed his name to Yukio Mishima, and published Confessions of a Mask. A fierce portrait of homosexuality-a subject with which Mishima had a lifelong fascination and, some say, involvement-Mask brought him fame. His best-known work, Temple of the Golden...
Died. Shojiro Kawashima, 80, vice president of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. In the 36 years that he served as a member of the Diet, Kawashima held a variety of Cabinet posts, but his real strength was as a party organizer and kingmaker; his politicking behind the scenes contributed to Hayato Ikeda's election as party president and Premier in 1960, as well as to that of his successor, Eisaku Sato...
Yoshizane Iwasa, president of the Fuji Bank, which is Japan's largest, found himself held to account for an embezzlement by a minor loan officer in a Tokyo branch. Masao Suganuma, 41, was arrested for taking $5,270,000 through phony loans. Once word got out, President Iwasa was summoned before the finance committee of Japan's Diet to explain and apologize. Last week the bank's board, of which Iwasa is a member, cut the pay of Iwasa and other officers and directors by as much as 30% for the next six months. The directors canceled...
...years ago, when he conducted an official study to confirm their effectiveness. He has since motorcycled all over the country, praising and photographing his favorite examples. In his modest home he has classified and filed away 3,000 photos, the best of which he will display at a Tokyo exhibit this month...