SDHF Newsletter No.77 Henry Stokes Chapter Six

Falsehoods of the Allied Nations’ Victorious Views of History,
as Seen by a British Journalist
Chapter Six: What was “Chorus” all about?
By Henry S. Stokes, former Tokyo Bureau Chief of The New York Times

September 2, 2014

We now present Chapter Six.
As already mentioned Mr. Stokes wrote The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
On October 4, 1970, one month before Mishima’s suicide manifesto, Mr. Stokes
received a letter, hand-written in English, by Mishima;

Dear Henry:
Enclosed are copies of my essay and short-story, which, I hope, might interest you.
I am still occupied by writing the last volume.
Finishing the long novel makes me feel sometimes as if it will be the end of the world.
As always
4 Oct, 1970 Yukio Mishima

Mr. Stokes thought that Yukio had placed his faith in him, in some way. He felt that he had a responsibility. So, he began to write. He wrote passages that were either boring, or untrue…One afternoon, the writing came spontaneously, as if an invisible hand or an inner voice did the job. Something took over. Something worked. He had 40 pages or so of a manuscript that day that came out right.

Chapter 6: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/120_S4.pdf
Chapter 1: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/114_S4.pdf
Chapter 2: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/115_S4.pdf
Chapter 3: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/116_S4.pdf
Chapter 4: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/117_S4.pdf
Chapter 5: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/119_S4.pdf
Author profile:　 https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/114_S3.pdf

Questions are welcome.

Sincerely,

MOTEKI Hiromichi, Secretary General
for KASE Hideaki, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact