Yasunari Kawabata had Parkinson's disease), a possible illicit love affair, or the shock caused by the suicide of his friend Yukio Mishima in 1970. Unlike Mishima, Kawabata left no note, and since (again unlike Mishima) he had not discussed significantly in his writings the topic of taking his own life, his motives remain unclear. However, his Japanese biographer, Takeo Okuno, has related how he had nightmares about Mishima for two or three hundred nights in a row, and was incessantly haunted by the specter of Mishima. In a persistently depressed state of mind, he would tell friends during his last years that
Yukio Futatsugi Yukio Futatsugi Yukio Futatsugi is a Japanese video game developer. His work includes leading the teams which created Sega Saturn games "Panzer Dragoon", "Panzer Dragoon II Zwei", and "Panzer Dragoon Saga", and Xbox title "Phantom Dust". He is the co-founder of video game development company Grounding Inc who developed "Crimson Dragon". Yukio Futatsugi grew up in Kobe, Japan, where he attended high school. While spending a year in San Francisco at primary school age he fell in love with games such as "Pong" and "Space Invaders", and later decided to pursue a career in video games over his other hobby,