yukio mishima

August 23, 2009
China outraged as Japan’s sabre rattler calls for nuclear arms
Michael Sheridan in Tokyo

The article itself is of interest.

However, I think it is important to note the obvious–though typical–disinformation here.

“Mishima and his followers took a general hostage and tried to incite a coup in 1971, resorting to self-sacrifice when the soldiers mocked them.”

This is intentionally dismissive and biased.

Anyone who has read Mishima should know that he had no viable plan for revolution, and the implication that he committed hara-kiri because he couldn’t handle being “mocked” is slanderous. He filmed his own hara-kiri years in advance and he went to the site prepared for suicide. (It is my understanding that they worked out the suicide out in advance, determining who would die, and shoving cotton in their asses to prevent the dishonor of shitting themselves in the process.) This is typically dismissive half-assed lefty bullshit journalism. It’s a snarky cliche, like calling Hitler a “failed artist,” dismissing the fact that he became the architect of a whole damn nation whose aesthetic is still so captivating that it is referenced in creative works around the world on a daily basis.

If you want to denounce someone’s politics, do so.

Don’t present half-assed gossip like a stupid, bitchy housewife.