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Yukio Mishima

Jonathan Bowden Library

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The Japanese Culture of the Mother, the Subculture of the Samurai

In a Japanese way of thinking, this is already integrated into the personality and doesn't need to be shown. This is quite opposed to the post-1960s belief in the Western world of emotional authentication. In Japan, some of the most senior artists and senior political figures in the society are people who write comic books. The enormous subculture within manga, which deals with every topic on earth, includes samurai genre.

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