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    Seppuku (切腹, lit. 'cutting [the] belly'), also called harakiri (腹切り, lit. 'abdomen/belly cutting', a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese...
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  • Harakiri (切腹, Seppuku, 1962) is a 1962 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. The story takes place between 1619 and 1630 during the Edo...
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    Kaishakunin (redirect from Second (seppuku))
    (Japanese: 介錯人) is a person appointed to behead an individual who has performed seppuku, Japanese ritual suicide, at the moment of agony. The role played by the...
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  • Taxi Girl (redirect from Seppuku (album))
    between 1978 and 1986, producing 5 mini-albums, and one full-length album, Seppuku. Their early success is attributed to two singles, "Mannequin" in 1979...
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    Seppuku Paradigm is a French electronica/film music/rock duo. They are currently based in Paris, France. Their name was inspired by the self given death...
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    Saigō Takamori (category Seppuku from Meiji period to present)
    The accounts of his subordinates claim that he stood up and committed seppuku after his injury or that he requested that his friend Beppu Shinsuke assist...
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  • Regents' negotiations go badly and Toranaga is threatened with forced seppuku. To escape the verdict, and to paralyse the council (for procedural reasons)...
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  • her hostage. Afterwards he and the rest of the household then committed seppuku and burned their mansion down. "小笠原少斎の墓" (in Japanese). Kumamoto Prefecture...
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  • Masakatsu Morita (category Seppuku from Meiji period to present)
    November 1970) was a Japanese political activist who killed himself via seppuku with Yukio Mishima in Tokyo. Morita was the youngest child of the headmaster...
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  • (Tewodros II) of Ethiopia. Japan has a long history of suicide in its culture. Seppuku is a type of ritual suicide that was practiced by samurai to avoid the...
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