Sea of Death

“The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation…. In order to accomplish this aim, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.”

— Article IX of Japan’s Post-World War II constitution

“But my heart’s leaning was for death, and night, and blood.”

— Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask