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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: Academia - Nietzschean Dialectics in the Novels of Mishima Yukio.	Yamini Chauhan	Nov 19, 2024
	Add new Web site: The New York Times - The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima.	Grace Young	Aug 02, 2024
	Add new Web site: BBC - Yukio Mishima: The strange tale of Japans infamous novelist.	Gloria Lotha	May 10, 2024
	Add new Web site: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - Mishima Yukio.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 29, 2024
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 27, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Jan 10, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Nov 21, 2023
	Add new Web site: University of Rochester - Three Percent - Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 10, 2023
	Add new Web site: History Today - Portrait of the Author as a Historian: Yukio Mishima.	Gloria Lotha	Oct 04, 2022
	Add new Web site: BBC - Yukio Mishima: The strange tale of Japans infamous novelist.	Aakanksha Gaur	May 24, 2021
	Replaced photograph.	Amy Tikkanen	Oct 26, 2017
	Add new Web site: The European Graduate School - Biography of Yukio Mishima.	Darshana Das	Sep 14, 2012
	Added new Web site: Pegasos - Biography of Yukio Mishima.	Deepti Mahajan	Oct 24, 2008
	Added new Web site: Washburn University - Biography of Mishima Yukio.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 05, 2007
	Added new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Fertile Crescent, Middle East.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 05, 2007
	Added new Web site: Mishima Yukio Cyber Museum - Mishima Yukio A Cronological History.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 05, 2007
	Added new Web site: The Japanese Literature - Biography of Mishima Yukio.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 05, 2007
	Article revised and updated.	Amy Tikkanen	Feb 09, 2007
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998