We are back to daily podcasts! Today, I will discuss Yukio Mishima’s seppuku and why Westerns take it so badly.
All of us have had our fair share of anti-suicide programming, and so when we hear about Mishima cutting his entrails out and getting beheaded, we want to call 988 and scream, “YOU TOOK THE EASY WAY OUT, MISHIMA!”
However, as I will explain in…