Bunch of cope.
"Ummm he's gay because... he just is okay! He worked out! He thinks male bodies are attractive! EW! As a very mature adult I think men are icky! His books were written by translators!"
personally i separate the art from the artist basically for everything anyway, you'd wind up staring at the wall otherwise or killing yourself or apparently thinking a japanese man from 1955 is literally andrew tate, but anyway
I’m sure bitching about a female writers isn’t going to ruin anyone’s day here
*bias detected* men and women authors can suck and it's ok and not misogyny, jk rowling modern hp hate is retarded though
However, I can safely say, the translators are working over time for this one. I’ve never seen someone have to express this man constantly tripping into his gay thoughts every sentence.
one of his earliest stories in 1946, the cigarette, was about a homosexual love and being teased for it, i don't think he's really someone you could go for the fuentes approach of "haha he's really a closet faggot" he seems if anything more like the real deal type of gay that had those feelings but would have been publically treated differently at best, i dunno i don't know 1945-60 jap culture off the top of my head, but he's pretty blatant throughout his career, including the work you mentioned
emperor hirohito also attended his graduation, where he was top of his class, and he also received received a watch from him as a gift, that's more of a reason to be turbo for your country than most i've seen, especially with how big of a deal hirohito was, it wasn't like getting a letter from nixon or some shit. personal recognition from your peers, class, and a literal/superstitiously so (around that time) God figure, i mean yeah that nigga probably rode "God i love my country" if not some flavor of "i love God and my country" all the way to the finish line
at least one thing says during his first draft, he didn't get first class in fitness, which along with his illness diagnosis could have (armchair) potentially driven him to bodybuilding and being "tough enough", the thing he says about "faking" illness is also more complicated
Why had I looked so frank as I lied to the army doctor? Why had I said that I'd been having a slight fever for over half a year, that my shoulder was painfully stiff, that I spit blood, that even last night I had been soaked by a night sweat?...Why when sentenced to return home the same day had I felt the pressure of a smile come pushing so persistently at my lips that I had difficulty in concealing it? Why had I run so when I was through the barracks gate? Hadn't my hopes been blasted? What was the matter that I hadn't hung my head and trudged away with heavy feet? I realized vividly that my future life would never attain heights of glory sufficient to justify my having escaped death in the army...
he also struggled with it for a very long time, just before that exam he had wrote a goodbye letter assuming he'd get in, and even left hair/etc in case he died as mementos for shrine etc. afterward crew he would have went with went to philliphines with few survivors and he got pretty fucked, would make comments about wishing he'd joined kamikaze units etc.
Too much space to paraphrase much more, but a lot of his shit was very complicated and if wrong, then grey. like the draft thing was likely some favor of wanting to fight for his country and then extreme fear, which'd be fucking anyone. gay shit is, well, because he was likely fucking gay, which would also explain like of drag women. underage shit etc is wrong and incorrect but for literature, if you're inserting yourself at a young age etc, there has to be some degree of artistic lenience. lolita for example is one of the strongest works against underage relationships but it requires exploring the mind of the groomer to realize the disconnect. you could argue for all work involving underage characters in situations like that or in general to be yeeted but even then, works for a time allowed it, and it doesn't mean they're a pedo. even works like It (the novel) i'd argue weren't, just if anything the writing goal (getting super fucked up, demoralized kids to essentially make a pact at their lowest moment) was done incorrectly, and It (1990) did a much more palatable, less fucked/illegal, basically same thing of them doing a literal blood pact with their hands. i don't think the modern It versions did anything which is the opposite problem.
all that said i don't think mishima was a pedo, lots of japanese lit is about forbidden love that typically goes fucking horribly for nearly everyone involved, lots of it gay, too, and romance of "age gap"/illegal shit continues to this day in lit with stuff like "Half His Age" by Jennete McCurdy, so if the industry makes it an acceptable/selling topic, then writers will go there, and him being fucked in the head post war would likely contribute to his work being more kind of fucked regardless of ethics, but clearly in japan it was commercially viable and acceptable. hopefully his wife was aware of her "beard"ness, or whatever the fuck went on that nobody knows of, but that's just hearsay and comparing it to modern shit. she may have even been allowed to go with whoever she wants on the dl, who knows. his coup and political shit and suicide was all retarded but his early meeting and acknowledgement with the emperor made kind of "well no fucking shit he got political when pre assassination jfk essentially said "i believe in you nigga""