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• n  ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society

• But while Mishima became obsessed with the latter (famously committing seppuku in 1970), Hosoe was able to tame his darker promptings and channel his creativity toward life .
• One's first intemperate disgust at the media for pursuing the admiral even to his death, his ritual shame, his seppuku, erupted behind the question: Who cares?.
• He committed political seppuku when a scandalous e-mail introduced by a DPJ member purporting to prove an LDP member's corruption turned out to be fake.

• harakiri
• hara-kiri
• harikari

News & Articles

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• Before Parquet Courts Roar, Pang Says Goodbye at Rickshaw Stop, 6/7/13
  By RAYMOND ROBLES Parquet Courts Cocktails Pang Friday, June 7, 2013 Rickshaw Stop Better than: Birthing pangs. What's it like to witness the death of a band? Its swan song seppuku Silvia Pla...
  June 10, 2013 - SF Weekly Blogs

Quotes

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• Manohla Dargis in New York Times
  In The Times in 2004, Manohla Dargis called the film a "plaintive, often stunningly beautiful anime, where sex dolls commit virtual seppuku against a swirl of film noir intrigue, philosophical speculation, eye-popping images and serious...