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‘‘Patriotism’’ is Mishima’s most well-known short story. Mishima portrays a married couple unable to participate in the attempted reinstatement of the Japanese emperor. The couple commit ritual suicide, and the story delineates the connection between death and sexual ecstasy.

Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel The Remains of the Day depicts through the eyes of the butler the events of an English manor house in the 1930s and 1940s.

Kenzaburo Oe is a Japanese novelist whose work epitomizes the rebellion of the post-World War II generation. The Silent Cry is a...

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