seppuku

Japanese bank’s founders blood-signed promise to commit samurai-style suicide if they committed fraud

Pledge, signed in blood, is “a treasure” of bank that’s still in operation today.

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Samurai ritual suicide contest cancelled by organizer in west Japan

Holding seppuku contest on government property deemed inappropriate by city hall.

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Remembering the Great White Butt of Japan’s early Edo period

A tale of butts and death.

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Japan’s prime minster should kill himself by seppuku, Russian politician says

”I can’t even comment on such delusion,” says security council deputy chairman, but still recommends ritual disembowelment.

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Man in Tokyo slices own stomach with knife near one of the city’s busiest train stations

Police officers arrive to find man collapsed and bleeding.

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