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Mt. Fuji train launched for inbound travelers

A ceremony marking the launch of a special "Mt. Fuji view" train dedicated to foreign tourists is held at JR Mishima Station in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on March 19, 2026. The train, operated by JR Tokai between March 19 and Dec. 22, will travel between Mishima Station of JR Tokaido Line and Fujinomiya Station of JR Minebu Line, with Mt. Fuji-themed pictures drawn by Edo-period ukiyoe artist Katsushika Hokusai on display inside the train.

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Mt. Fuji train launched for inbound travelers

A ceremony marking the launch of a special "Mt. Fuji view" train dedicated to foreign tourists is held at JR Mishima Station in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on March 19, 2026. The train, operated by JR Tokai between March 19 and Dec. 22, will travel between Mishima Station of JR Tokaido Line and Fujinomiya Station of JR Minebu Line, with Mt. Fuji-themed pictures drawn by Edo-period ukiyoe artist Katsushika Hokusai on display inside the train.

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Powerful typhoon in Japan

A signboard at a JR Hamamatsu station ticket gate in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan, shows Tokaido bullet train services suspended between Mishima in the prefecture and Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, on Aug. 30, 2024, due to the approach of Typhoon Shanshan.

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Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo closes temporarily

TOKYO, Japan, Feb. 12 Kyodo - Video taken on Feb. 12, 2024, shows the Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo as it closes the same day for an undetermined period due to the run-down condition of its 87-year-old building. The hotel served as regular lodgings for many renowned figures in Japanese literature, such as Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima. (Kyodo)

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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 11 Kyodo - Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima talks with actress Kyoko Kishida of Bungakuza, a major Tokyo theater company, in the Japanese capital in March 1960. Kishida made her breakthrough in Mishima's stage production of Oscar Wilde's "Salome" the same year.

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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 11 Kyodo - Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima practices "kendo" Japanese fencing in June 1959.

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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 11 Kyodo - Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima poses for a photo with his wife Yoko Hiraoka at their wedding in Tokyo on June 1, 1958.

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Novelist Yukio Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, April 24 Kyodo - Novelist Yukio Mishima (C) smiles at a party held at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo in March 1960 to celebrate the completion of a film in which he played the leading role. (Kyodo)

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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 11 Kyodo - The body of renowned Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima and a cohort are carried from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Camp Ichigaya in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 1970, after he committed ritual suicide following his failed attempt to stage a coup in protest against the country's pacifist Constitution. Mishima, a Nobel literature prize nominee from 1963 to 1968, is known for his works including "Shiosai" (The Sound of Waves) and "Kinkakuji" (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion).

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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 11 Kyodo - Photo taken on Nov. 3, 1969, shows Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima at the National Theatre in Tokyo attending an event marking the first anniversary of a nationalist militia he established in protest at the country's pacifist Constitution.(Kyodo)

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Japanese novelist Kawabata

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 11 Kyodo - Nobel laureate Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata (C) attends the funeral of Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima on Jan. 24, 1971, at Tokyo's Tsukiji Hongwanji temple.

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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 22 Kyodo - Japanese Novelist Yukio Mishima speaks before University of Tokyo students at the university's Komaba campus in Tokyo on May 13, 1969. The photo is taken from the book "The Chronicle: 70 years of postwar Japan (5) -- 1965-69 Defiance and exploration --," compiled by Kyodo News.(Kyodo)

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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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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 22 Kyodo - Photo taken in 1950 shows Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima. (Kyodo)

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Japanese novelist Mishima

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 22 Kyodo - Japanese Novelist Yukio Mishima (C) attends a press conference, alongside Japanese novelist Sei Ito (R) and a lawyer, on Sept. 28, 1964, following a Tokyo District Court ruling ordering Mishima to pay 800,000 yen to Japan's former Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita. The court said the 1960 publication of Mishima's book "After the Banquet" so closely followed the events surrounding Arita's campaign to become governor of Tokyo that it violated the politician's privacy. The case is renowned as Japan's landmark judicial recognition of the right to privacy versus freedom of expression. The photo is taken from the book "The Chronicle: 70 years of postwar Japan (4) -- 1960-64 In the heat of the moment --," compiled by Kyodo News.(Kyodo)

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Mishima Taisha shrine in central Japan

File photo taken on Aug. 8, 2023, shows Mishima Taisha shrine, designated as an important cultural property, in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

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Mishima Taisha shrine in central Japan

File photo taken on Aug. 8, 2023, shows Mishima Taisha shrine, designated as an important cultural property, in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

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Strawbird Festival in Japan

Straw-clad holy messengers take part in a religious ritual, Mishima no Kasedori, in the southwestern Japan city of Saga on Feb. 11, 2023. The event is recognized by UNESCO as an important intangible cultural practice unique to Japan. (Pool photo)

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Strawbird Festival in Japan

Straw-clad holy messengers take part in a religious ritual, Mishima no Kasedori, in the southwestern Japan city of Saga on Feb. 11, 2023. The event is recognized by UNESCO as an important intangible cultural practice unique to Japan. (Pool photo)

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Mishima HS wins nat'l 'performing calligraphy' contest

SHIKOKUCHUO, Japan - A team of students from Mishima High School in Shikokuchuo, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, shows their work to judges en route to winning the seventh national high school contest dedicated to "performing calligraphy" combining dance with the art of writing with a big brush that took place in the nearby city of Kochi on Aug. 3, 2014.

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Winning team performs calligraphy with legs at nat'l contest

SHIKOKUCHUO, Japan - A team of students from Mishima High School in Shikokuchuo, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, writes with their legs as part of their performance before winning the seventh national high school contest dedicated to "performing calligraphy" combining dance with the art of writing with a big brush that took place in the nearby city of Kochi on Aug. 3, 2014.

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7 recommended as Japan living national treasures

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken July 17, 2014, in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, shows traditional Noh drummer Mishima Gentaro. The government's Council for Cultural Affairs recommended Mishima and six others as Japanese living national treasures on July 18, 2014.

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Quake measures on shinkansen

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Central Japan Railway Co. shows reporters a rail (back) with anti-derailment gears in case of a major quake on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line at JR Mishima Station in Shizuoka Prefecture on Jan. 9, 2013.

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Quake measures on shinkansen

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Central Japan Railway Co. shows reporters a rail with anti-derailment gears in case of a major quake on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line at Mishima Station in Shizuoka Prefecture on Jan. 9, 2013.

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Japan's Olympic debut at 1912 Stockholm Games

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the Japanese athletic delegation marching during the opening ceremony of the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden, which marked Japan's first Olympic appearance. The sign holder was marathon runner Shiso Kanaguri (R front) and the flag bearer was sprinter Yahiko Mishima (L front).

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Japan's Olympic debut at 1912 Stockholm Games

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the Japanese athletic delegation led by judoka Jigoro Kano (L) marching during the opening ceremony of the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden, which marked Japan's first Olympic appearance. The flag bearer was sprinter Yahiko Mishima.

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JFE, IHI to merge shipbuilding units

TOKYO, Japan - Universal Shipbuilding Corp. President Shinjiro Mishima (L) and IHI Marine United Inc. President Shigemi Kurahara hold a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 30, 2012. The shipbuilding units of JFE Holdings Inc. and IHI Corp. will merge in October, becoming a shipbuilder comparable with industry leader Imabari Shipbuilding Co. in terms of production volume.

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Violent monkey caught again

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Japanese macaque named Lucky is caught and returned to its cage at Rakujuen park in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 25, 2011, a day after it escaped. The monkey was first captured in October 2010 for violent attacks on people and was kept at the park.

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Violent monkey escapes

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Photo shows a cage at Rakujuen park in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 24, 2011. A Japanese macaque named Lucky, caught in October 2010 after reportedly biting, scratching and jumping on more than 100 people, escaped from the cage earlier the same day.

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Violent monkey escapes

SHIZUOKA, Japan - File photo shows a monkey kept at Rakujuen park in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, in December 2010. The Japanese macaque named Lucky, caught in October 2010 after reportedly biting, scratching and jumping on more than 100 people, escaped from its cage in the park on Jan. 24, 2011.

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

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors take a close look at a helicopter of the Ground Self-Defense Force during a tour of the Defense Ministry's headquarters in Tokyo on March 11.

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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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Former 'private soldier' of Mishima recalls his ritual suicide

TOKYO, Japan - Kunio Suzuki, adviser to a nationalist group Issui-Kai, established in 1972, talks about the Mishima incident in an interview with Kyodo News.

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Mohamad to visit Japan again in July

MISHIMA, Japan - Yukiko Hashida (C), the wife of a Japanese journalist killed in Iraq, speaks at a press conference in Mishima, Shizauoka Prefecture, on June 8. She said that Mohamad Haytham Saleh, an Iraq boy whose left eye was injured in fighting between armed Iraqi groups and U.S. troops in Fallujah, will visit Japan on July 7 for a medical checkup.

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Iraqi boy thanks Nihon Univ. for raising funds for eye treatment

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Mohamad Haytham Saleh (R), 10, in Japan from Iraq to receive treatment for an injured eye, visits Nihon University in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, on June 9 to thank the university for raising funds for his medical treatment.

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Female drivers to debut on Shinkansen bullet trains

MISHIMA, Japan - Four young women working with Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) show off their driver's licenses for bullet trains awarded June 18 by the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture. They will debut on the Tokaido Shinkansen in Tokyo, Nagoya and Shin-Osaka on June 20.

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(1)Mishima's unpublished letters to be disclosed

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows unpublished letters that the late writer Yukio Mishima wrote to his mentor from his teens through his death at the age of 45 in 1970. About 60 of the letters, addressed to the late Fumio Shimizu who taught Mishima Japanese literature at the then elite Middle School of Gakushuin in Tokyo, will be published in January.

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Children's story penned by Mishima on display at museum

FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan - The manuscript of a recently discovered children's story by the late Japanese writer Yukio Mishima was put on display at the Mishima Yukio Literary Museum in the village of Yamanakako in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, on Feb. 10. The story, penned on 16 sheets of paper, is about a boy who is taken to see a bear in Osaka. When he arrives, he finds the bear has been sold to a hot-spring inn so he visits the inn because he is concerned the bear might have been killed for its fur.

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Drill simulating Tokai quake conducted at bullet-train station

MISHIMA, Japan - Railway staff at the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet- train line's Mishima Station in Shizuoka Prefecture carry a ''wounded'' passenger in a drill simulating a huge Tokai earthquake on Aug. 28. It was the first time in Japan that an earthquake drill was conducted at a bullet-train station.

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Kinki Postal Administration Office raided over poll violation

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka prefectural police officers enter the Kinki Postal Administration Office in Osaka's Chuo Ward on Aug. 27 to search for evidence in connection with the arrest of its chief, Tsuyoshi Mishima. Nishimura was arrested on Aug. 26 on suspicion of using his influence to urge postmasters to support newly elected House of Councillors lawmaker Kenji Koso.

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JR Tokai ordered to pay 49 mil. yen over teen's death

NUMAZU, Japan - Yasuo Kawasaki (L) and Nobue Kawasaki, parents of Yusuke Kawasaki, wipe away tears at a news conference in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 7 after the Shizuoka District Court ordered Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) to pay them 49 million yen in compensation over a 1995 bullet train accident at Mishima Station on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line. On Dec. 27, 1995, their son Yusuke, 17, died after getting his finger caught in a train door and being dragged for about 150 meters.

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Mayuzumi died

Toshiro MAYUZUMI (1929-1997), composer, is responsible for introducing electronic musin to Japan and his XYZ (1953) was the first Japanese work composed in the manner of musique concrete. Influenced by Buddhism and Asian cultures, in 1958 he composed the symphony ""Nehan "" (Nirvana) and in 1963 the cantata ""Keka"" (Repentance). In 1976 he composed an opera based on Mishima Yukio's novel ""Kinkakuji"" that was first performed by the Berlin Opera. Mayuzumi was also politically oriented, denying, like some right-wing Japanese politicians, Japan's wartime aggression. (Picture was taken in February 11, 1989 at ""Ceremony or Japanese National Foundation"".)

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Mayuzumi died

Toshiro MAYUZUMI (1929-1997), composer, is responsible for introducing electronic musin to Japan and his XYZ (1953) was the first Japanese work composed in the manner of musique concrete. Influenced by Buddhism and Asian cultures, in 1958 he composed the symphony ""Nehan "" (Nirvana) and in 1963 the cantata ""Keka"" (Repentance). In 1976 he composed an opera based on Mishima Yukio's novel ""Kinkakuji"" that was first performed by the Berlin Opera.

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PM Kishida visits shrine in Shizuoka

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (front, C) visits Mishima Taisha shrine in the Shizuoka Prefecture city of Mishima, central Japan, on Aug. 18, 2022, during his summer holiday.

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Fireworks ritual at Japan shrine

A ritual is held at the Mishima Taisha shrine in the Shizuoka Prefecture city of Mishima, central Japan, on Aug. 16, 2022, to make the blowing power of fireworks ward off plague and bring happiness.

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Fireworks ritual at Japanese shrine

A ritual is held at the Mishima Taisha shrine in the Shizuoka Prefecture city of Mishima, central Japan, on Aug. 16, 2022, to make the blowing power of fireworks ward off plague and bring happiness.

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Fireworks ritual at Japanese shrine

A ritual is held at the Mishima Taisha shrine in the Shizuoka Prefecture city of Mishima, central Japan, on Aug. 16, 2022, to make the blowing power of fireworks ward off plague and bring happiness.

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Security training on Japan bullet train

A man with a knife (2nd from R) is surrounded by police officers in security training on a Tokaido Shinkensen bullet train on Nov. 17, 2021, in Mishima in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, following recent security incidents on trains.

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Security training on Japan bullet train

An officer (facing camera) faces a man with a knife in security training on a Tokaido Shinkensen bullet train on Nov. 17, 2021, in Mishima in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, following recent security incidents on trains.

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Mohamad to visit Japan again in July

MISHIMA, Japan - Yukiko Hashida (C), the wife of a Japanese journalist killed in Iraq, speaks at a press conference in Mishima, Shizauoka Prefecture, on June 8. She said that Mohamad Haytham Saleh, an Iraq boy whose left eye was injured in fighting between armed Iraqi groups and U.S. troops in Fallujah, will visit Japan on July 7 for a medical checkup. (Kyodo)