Museum displays Mishima's unpublished notes on 1964 Olympics

The Mishima Yukio Literary Museum in Yamanakako, Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, shows to the press on March 23, 2015, a notebook containing unpublished jottings written by novelist Yukio Mishima during the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo as a special reporter for three newspapers. The recently discovered notebook was opened to the public from the following day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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