Ango, Mishima, war, and nuclear power
In an essay published on the 11th of August 1967, the well-known writer Yukio Mishima 三島由紀夫 surprisingly yielded a confession about why he had never mentioned the trauma that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had exerted on his psyche – and if we are to take his statement literally, his literature as well. The essay is titled “Hiroshima inside me” (Watashi no naka no hiroshima. In it, Mishima describes the extent of the moral and psychic trauma that this event extolled on him as a youngster.