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The Meaning of Suicide "On November 25, 1970, at 11a.m. Mishima and his four cadets arrived at the Ichigaya Headquarters of the Eastern Army. He stepped onto the balcony and read his 'Manifesto' trying to arouse the soldiers to take action and rose up to save Japan, but was mostly unheard and jeered. After shouting three times 'Long Live His Majesty the Emperor!', Mishima committed seppuku in the office of General Kanetoshi Mashita at 12:15p.m."(The Yukio Mishima Cyber Museum). This event was reported both nationally and internationally, which encouraged some people to conclude that the tradition of Japanese suicide was still alive. As Edwin O. Reishauer states that from the beginning of the Meiji period(1868-1912) the total westernization of Japan was set in motion, which changed even the religious habits of the Japanese people(262). This explains why less and less people performed traditional or ritual acts, and seppuku was one...

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