http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/1760/joseph-verbovszky Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 23 May 2026 14:15:46 -0400 Sat, 23 May 2026 14:15:46 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/797/overcoming-modernity-in-yukio-mishima By Joseph Verbovszky - Following the disaster of the Second World War, these issues of Modernity confronted Japanese culture; issues that the now recently fallen Imperial government had attempted to overcome through the welding together of eastern and western sensibilities in the form of the Empire of Japan. Even before this, the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa periods had themselves severely Westernized Japan. That dream however, now lay amid the smoldering ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the war, most of Japan accepted the new American domination of their society. A few, however, including some writers and intellectuals... Wed, 20 Nov 2013 04:02 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/797/overcoming-modernity-in-yukio-mishima