Word: harakiri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tokyo continued under martial law. Last week 1,320 Japanese private soldiers who conducted the assassinations and seizures of Government buildings were released from custody and returned in good standing to their regiments "because they merely obeyed the commands of their officers." Two of these officers committed harakiri, but the rest were alive and well last week. Every Japanese knew that the Radical-Militarists were still assassination-minded in case the new Cabinet of hard, spry little onetime Foreign Minister Koki Hirota does not give Japan the drastic social and economic overhaul which they demand...
...hand as they had last week, it is supposed that the Son of Heaven has been inconvenienced or disturbed and officials of the Empire are supposed to regret this. They may regret it either by voicing their shame with an appropriate grovel or by disemboweling themselves in harakiri...
Mounted Policeman Olaf Wieghorst showed a picture of his favorite horse, and Poet e. e. cummings exhibited a blue moonlight scene. The Rev. J. Cole Mc-Kim, missionary and jujitsu expert, offered a startling canvas called Surprise Harakiri. It showed an impetuous Japanese gentleman suddenly ripping his stomach open with a dagger before the eyes of his assembled guests...
...telephone for instructions; sailors, protected by masks and helmets, staggering about in fume-filled turrets, loading the guns (see cut, p. 44). The battle is bitter and bloody. When it is over and victory has been won, the commander retires to his quarters, dons the ceremonial robes for harakiri, slices his belly open. Another officer administers the coup de gráce with a full two-handed sword stroke...
...saying, both drew their daggers, bared their stomachs, made clumsy efforts to commit harakiri. Pouncing police grabbed both bunglers before they had much harmed themselves, bundled them off to jail, announced, "they will both recover." Meanwhile a party of friends of the two men (whose names police kept secret) were busy with a hunger strike against the income tax evasions, had not eaten for more than a week...