Mishima's suicide room a hot spot in Defense Ministry tour

TOKYO, Japan - A guide (C) tells visitors that they are in the room in which Japanese novelist and nationalist Yukio Mishima committed ritual suicide in 1970, during a tour of the Defense Ministry's headquarters in Tokyo on March 11. The room is part of the Ichigaya Memorial Hall in the ministry's premises.

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