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Yukio Mishima

Name at birth: Kimitake HiraokaYukio Mishima is one of the most widely-read Japanese authors of the 20th century, due in part to his dramatic suicide in 1970. Born in Tokyo, Mishima studied law and…

Mishima, Yukio

(Encyclopedia) Mishima, YukioMishima, Yukioy&oomacr;ˈkēō mĭshˈēmä [key], 1925–70, Japanese author, b. Tokyo. His original name was Kimitake Hiraoka and he was born into a samurai family. Mishima…

Kawabata, Yasunari

(Encyclopedia) Kawabata, YasunariKawabata, Yasunariyäs&oomacr;näˈrē käwäˈbätä [key], 1899–1972, Japanese novelist. His first major work was The Izu Dancer, (1925). He came to be a leader of the…

Mishima

(Encyclopedia) MishimaMishimamēˈshēmä [key], city (1990 pop. 105,418), Shizuoka prefecture, central Honshu, Japan. It is a hot-spring resort, a transportation hub, and a center for dairy processing…

Ozaki, Yukio

(Encyclopedia) Ozaki, YukioOzaki, Yukioy&oomacr;ˈkēō ōzäˈkē [key], 1859–1954, Japanese statesman, the outstanding liberal of late 19th-century and early 20th-century Japan. A newspaper editor, he…

Hatoyama, Yukio

(Encyclopedia) Hatoyama, YukioHatoyama, Yukioy&oomacr;ˈkēō [key]Hatoyama, Yuki hätōˈyämä [key], 1947–, Japanese politician, grad. Tokyo Univ. (B.S., 1969), Stanford (Ph.D, 1976). Though his…

Kan, Naoto

(Encyclopedia) Kan, Naoto, 1946–, Japanese political leader, grad. Tokyo Institute of Technology (1970). A civic activist and long-time opponent of the Liberal Democratic party, he first was elected…

1964 Men's Olympic Gymnastics Medalists

Individual   Points All-Around Yukio Endo, JPN 115.95   Shuji Tsurumi, JPN / Viktor Lisitsky, USSR / Boris Shaklin, USSR 115.40 Floor Franco Menichelli, ITA 19.45…

Japanese literature

(Encyclopedia) Japanese literature, literary works produced in the language of the islands of Japan. See also Asian drama. The immense public demand for fiction in postwar Japan has been fed…