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While *technically* correct, in the faintest of ways, this old chestnut of orientalist history (I remember reading the same version, word-for-word, when I first heard of him, 30y ago) papers over some major steps between the "protest at Western subjugation of Japan" and "commits ritual suicide"…

The way more accurate short of it, is that Mishima offed himself after a comically bungled attempt at a military coup.

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