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seppuku

Japanese ritual suicide, popularly known as hara-kiri.



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Then, in a carefully staged event, Mishima committed seppuku, plunging a ceremonial dagger into his abdomen while, almost simultaneously, his assistant beheaded him.
A Japanese right-wing nationalist stabbed himself in the stomach Monday outside the parliament building in an apparent suicide attempt by ritual seppuku disembowelment, police said.
Teenagers held off the unremitting boredom of it all by break-dancing in groups while this reporter ruminated on whether volunteering to cover a never-ending pop concert held in a car park was a form of Seppuku.
 
 
 
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