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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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Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo closes temporarily

Employees line up in front of the Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2024, 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.

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Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo closes temporarily

Photo 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.

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Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo closes temporarily

Photo 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.

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Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo closes temporarily

Employees line up in front of the Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2024, 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.

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Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo closes temporarily

Photo 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.

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Hilltop Hotel in Tokyo closes temporarily

Photo 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.

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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 as Nobel candidate

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - File photo shows Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. The Nobel Prize website disclosed information on the selection of the 1963 Nobel Prize for literature on Jan. 2, 2014, including the names of Mishima and other candidates.

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Mishima as Nobel candidate

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Photo shows the name of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima on the list of candidates for the 1963 Nobel Prize for literature in a document of the Sweden Academy, as it was disclosed to Kyodo News. The Nobel Prize website disclosed information on the selection of the 1963 literature prize on Jan. 2, 2014, including the names of Mishima and other candidates.

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Stage director Miyamoto in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Leading Japanese stage director Amon Miyamoto speaks during a press conference in New York on June 23, 2011, ahead of the U.S. premiere of his new production in the city. ''The Temple of the Golden Pavilion,'' a play based on the eponymous novel by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), will play at Lincoln Center from July 21-24.

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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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(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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Letters found from Mishima's youth

Private letters written by novelist Yukio Mishima in his teens are unveiled Oct. 21. The 53 letters were sent to the late Fumihiko Azuma, Mishima's schoolmate at Gakushuin Junior High and High School. A critic says the letters show Mishima's precocious talent.

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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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(2)Mishima's unpublished letters to be disclosed

TOKYO, Japan - Writer Yukio Mishima (L) poses with his mentor Fumio Shimizu in a photo taken in a Horoshima hotel on August 26, 1966. Some of the letters Mishima wrote to Shimizu will be published in January. The photo was provided by the late Shimizu's kin. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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Novelist Mishima's unpublished notes on 1964 Olympics discovered

A notebook containing unpublished jottings written by novelist Yukio Mishima, seen in this undated photo, during the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo was recently discovered and made public by a museum featuring the writer from March 24, 2015. Mishima, who killed himself in 1970, covered the event as a special reporter for three newspapers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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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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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. (Kyodo)

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Jiro Fukushima, male lover of Mishima, dies at 76

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Jiro Fukushima (in file photo), a writer who revealed his homosexual relationship with late novelist Yukio Mishima, died of pancreatic cancer on Feb. 22 at a hospital in Kumamoto Prefecture, his family said. He was 76. Fukushima authored a book depicting his affair with Mishima. The bereaved family of Mishima, however, filed a lawsuit, seeking a ban on further publication of the book which initially hit the shelves in March 1998, and Fukushima lost the court battle in November 2000. (Kyodo)

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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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Stage director Miyamoto in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Leading Japanese stage director Amon Miyamoto speaks during a press conference in New York on June 23, 2011, ahead of the U.S. premiere of his new production in the city. ''The Temple of the Golden Pavilion,'' a play based on the eponymous novel by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), will play at Lincoln Center from July 21-24. (Kyodo)

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(6)Yukio Mishima

TOKYO, Japan - The file photo of prizewinning novelist Yukio Mishima. The date of the photo is unknown. (Kyodo)

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Novelist Mishima

File photo taken on Nov. 25, 1970, at a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force facility in Tokyo shows Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima making a speech just before his dramatic suicide. A book featuring a collection of previously unpublished photographs of Mishima taken by renowned Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama was released in the United States ahead of the 50th anniversary of the writer's suicide on Nov. 25, 2020.

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Novelist Mishima

File photo taken on Oct. 15, 1968, shows Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima. A book featuring a collection of previously unpublished photographs of Mishima taken by renowned Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama was released in the United States ahead of the 50th anniversary of the writer's suicide on Nov. 25, 2020.

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Novelist Mishima's unreleased 1970 voice recording found in Tokyo

Undated photo shows the late Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima. An unreleased voice recording of Mishima has been found at Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings Inc. in which he talked about death and Japan's pacifist Constitution nine months before his sensational suicide, the company said Jan. 12, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Handwritten manuscripts of novelist Mishima's early works found

Undated photo shows Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), a renowned Japanese novelist. A literature museum in southwestern Japan said Nov. 11, 2016, that handwritten manuscripts of four early works by Mishima have been discovered, including his debut piece written in 1941 as a 16-year-old junior high school student. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mishima's suicide note disclosed

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a note the novelist Yukio Mishima wrote to his followers before breaking into a Self-Defense Forces (SDF) building in Tokyo and committing suicide in 1970. The note reveals he decided to make the protest action with just a few of his followers as the times were not favorable for concerted action by his entire group, Tate-no-kai.

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Letters found from Mishima's youth

Private letters written by novelist Yukio Mishima in his teens are unveiled Oct. 21. The 53 letters were sent to the late Fumihiko Azuma, Mishima's schoolmate at Gakushuin Junior High and High School. A critic says the letters show Mishima's precocious talent. ==Kyodo

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(1)Yukio Mishima

TOKYO, Japan - Prizewinning writer Yukio Mishima at a parade to celebrate the first anniversary of the foundation of "Tateno Kai" rightist group. The photo was taken Nov. 3, 1969. (Kyodo)

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(2)Yukio Mishima

TOKYO, Japan - Prizewinning writer Yukio Mishima during a debate at the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Arts. The photo was taken May 13, 1969. (Kyodo)

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(3)Yukio Mishima

TOKYO, Japan - Prizewinning writer Yukio Mishima (R) visits the home of his mentor, novelist Yasunari Kawabata, to congratulate Kawabata on receiving Nobel literature prize and becoming the first Japanese to do so. The photo was taken Oct. 17, 1968. (Kyodo)

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(5)Yukio Mishima

TOKYO, Japan - Prizewinning novelist Yukio Mishima talks with movie director Koreyoshi Kurahara. The photo was taken February 1966. (Kyodo)

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(4)Yukio Mishima

TOKYO, Japan - Prizewinning novelist Yukio Mishima and his wife Yoko Mishima at their wedding ceremony. The photo was taken June 1, 1958. (Kyodo)