The Self-Defense Forces and Me, by Yukio Mishima
"The students responded to my intent, abandoned strange intellectual pretensions, and got muddy and moved."
The Self-Defense Forces and Me
Yukio Mishima
After having served in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force for forty-five days last spring, I have come to be known as one of the two leading figures of SDF Mania alongside Minami Michirō1 of the entertainment world. Japan has the beautiful sentiment2 of valuing the courtesy of having been given a night’s lodging and a meal, and just as those who have been invited to travel to Red China always stop speaking ill of it, one cannot expect me to speak ill of the SDF.