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If you have any questions, please call the Japan Society office on 020 3075 1996 or email Info When Yukio Mishimas novel Beautiful Star was published in 1962, it was a complete flop. Author of well-known works such as The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Mishima remains one of Japan's most well-known literary figures. Mishima’s works are often noted to be characterised by exuberant vocabulary and decadent concepts both combining traditional Japanese and modern western elements. Born in 1925 in Tokyo, he graduated 22 years later from Tokyo Imperial University and wrote several short stories, novels and plays until his early untimely death in 1970. Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), the pen name for Kimitake Hiraoka, is one of the most prominent and important Japanese authors of the 20th century. This extra-terrestrial knowledge brings them closer together, and convinces them that they have a mission: to find others of their kind, and save humanity from the imminent threat of the atomic bomb. And a charming young man, who claims to be from Venus too, tempts daughter Akiko away from the family.Translated into English for the first time, Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was the novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece. This atmospheric black comedy tells the story of the Osugi family, who come to the sudden realization that each of them hails from a different planet: Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus. But there are other extra-terrestrials out there, ones who do not look so kindly on the flaws and foibles of humans. After all, humans may be terribly flawed, but aren't they worth saving? He sends out a coded message in the newspaper to find other aliens. He writes letters to Khrushchev, trying to warn everyone he can of the terrible threat. But Father, Juichiro, is worried about the bomb. Already seen as oddballs in their small Japanese town in the 1960s, this extra-terrestrial knowledge brings them closer together they climb mountains to wait for UFOs, study at home together and regard their human neighbours with a kindly benevolence.

Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus. Each of them hails from a different planet. The Osugi family have come to a realisation. The novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece- a tale of family, nuclear war, love and UFOs.

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