Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 22 Kyodo - Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima makes a speech at a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force facility in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 1970, just before his dramatic suicide.(Kyodo)

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