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    Mishima Yukio, born Hiraoka Kimitake in 1925 in Tokyo, Japan, was a prolific and influential Japanese author, poet, playwright, and nationalist who committed ritual suicide by seppuku in 1970 after founding a civilian militia. He was the son of a high civil servant and attended elite schools in Tokyo, working in a factory during World War II when he failed to qualify for military service before studying law at the University of Tokyo and becoming regarded as Japan's most important 20th century novelist.

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    Mishima Yukio, born Hiraoka Kimitake in 1925 in Tokyo, Japan, was a prolific and influential Japanese author, poet, playwright, and nationalist who committed ritual suicide by seppuku in 1970 after founding a civilian militia. He was the son of a high civil servant and attended elite schools in Tokyo, working in a factory during World War II when he failed to qualify for military service before studying law at the University of Tokyo and becoming regarded as Japan's most important 20th century novelist.

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    Mishima Yukio, born Hiraoka Kimitake in 1925 in Tokyo, Japan, was a prolific and influential Japanese author, poet, playwright, and nationalist who committed ritual suicide by seppuku in 1970 after founding a civilian militia. He was the son of a high civil servant and attended elite schools in Tokyo, working in a factory during World War II when he failed to qualify for military service before studying law at the University of Tokyo and becoming regarded as Japan's most important 20th century novelist.

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    HIRAOKA KIMITAKE

     Mishima Yukio, pseudonym of


    Hiraoka Kimitake is born on
    January 14, 1925, Tokyo, Japan and
    died on November 25, 1970, in
    Tokyo.
     Was a Japanese author, poet,
    playwright, actor, model, Shintoist,
    nationalist, and founder of the
    Tatenokai (“Shield Society”), an
    unarmed civilian militia.
     Prolific writer who is regarded by
    many critics as the most important
    Japanese novelist of the 20th century.
     Mishima was the son of a high civil
    servant and attended the aristocratic Peers School in Tokyo.
     During World War II, having failed to qualify physically for military service, he worked
    in a Tokyo factory, and after the war he studied law at the University of Tokyo.

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