SOURCES
For readers who are interested in the works of Yukio Mishima, the following were used as sources for this book:
CHAPTER 12: Patriotism, published by New Directions Books, 1995
CHAPTER 15: Runaway Horses, Alfred Knopf, 1973
CHAPTER 15: “Kyoko’s House,” 1959 quoted in Mishima by John Nathan, Little Brown & Co., 1974
CHAPTER 23: The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea, Alfred Knopf, 1965
CHAPTER 28: The Hagakure: A Code to the Way of Samurai, Hokuseido Press (Tokyo), 1980
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
THE MAN WITH THE RED TATTOO
The author and publishers would like to thank the following individuals and organisations for their help in the preparation of this book:
IN THE U.S. AND CANADA:
Paul Baack; Claude Berman; Tom Colgan; Contra Costa Mosquito and Vector Control District (Concord, CA): Steve Schutz; John Heaton; Imperial Hotel Tokyo (Chicago): Walter Hladko; Japan Airlines (Chicago): Yasuharu Noda, Toshinara Akita and Otoya Yurugi; Japan National Tourist Organisation (Chicago): Yasutake Tsukamoto, Masahiro Iwatsuki, Risa Sekiguchi and John Ventrella; Lawrence Keller; Prince Hotels Japan (Chicago): Yasuko Machida-Chang; Doug Redenius; David Reinhardt; My wife Randi and my son Max
IN JAPAN:
The Ainu Museum (Shiraoi): Ikuo Yamamaru, Miyuki Muraki and Shigeru Funahashi; Tadao Ando; Aomori JR Rail Station: Meiji Araya, Yoshio Kuroda and Yoshiki Tamura; Aomori Prefectural Government: Takashi Okawara, Yutaka Ogasawara, Yoshiko Abo and Kerianne Panos; Bear Park (Noboribetsu): Genzo Kawakami and Naoko Maeda; Christopher Belton; Benesse House and Benesse Corporation: Soichiro Fukutake, Reiko Fukutake, Yuji Akimoto, Ryoji Kasahara, Kayo Tokuda and Yukiko Tanaka; Dai-ichi Takimotokan (Noboribetsu): Tomoko Okumura; Don Juan Men’s Club (Tokyo): Keita Ono and “Rei”; Imperial Hotel Tokyo: Mari Miyazaki, Hideya Sadayasu and Yohkoh Sato; Japan National Tourist Organisation (Tokyo): Hideaki Mukaiyama, Mariko Tatsumi, Masaki Hirata, Yoshitaka Hara and Isao Yoshiike; Kabuki-za Theater: Munehiro Matsumoto and Simon Yoshizumi; Yoshiko Kitanishi and family; Mie Hama; Glen A. Hill; Hokkaido Prefectural Government: Masaaki Hirano, Rie Toyama and Seiji Miura; Reiko Ishizaki; Yoshihisa Nakayama; Randy Rice; Sapporo Prince Hotel: Taniguchi Akihiko and Murakami Yoshiki; Seikan Tunnel Museum and Seikan Tunnel: Hiromitsu Hamaya, Kazuhiro Horiba, Masahiro Ichijo, Mitsugu Tamai and Hiroshi Inayama; Takanawa Prince Hotel/Sakura Tower (Tokyo): Yusuke Watanabe, Kajiwara Satoshi and Hiroshi Moriyama; Tokyo Convention and Visitors Bureau: Naotaka Odake, Yasuyuki Yabuki, Yuka Takahashi and Koichi Hagiwara; Yayoi Torikai; Akiko Wakabayasni
IN THE U.K.:
Carolyn Caughey; Hillingdon and Uxbridge Coroner’s Office: Bob Greenwell; Ian Fleming (Glidrose) Publications Ltd; and, as always, the Heirs of Ian Lancaster Fleming
A special thank-you to the Japan National Tourist Organisation for their generous contributions to the making of this book, and to James McMahon for being my “Richard Hughes” while in Japan.
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