Word: harakiri
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...made his honorable exit. Onetime hero of the Empire, Nagumo commanded the carriers in the Pearl Harbor attack, lived to see his fame dimmed when he lost four of five carriers in the Battle of Midway. After Saipan fell, U.S. soldiers found his corpse. He had, quite obviously, committed harakiri...
...second thought, the U.S. Communists discovered that they could do without themselves. The National Committee of the party last week resolved-unanimously, of course-to stage a full-dress left-handed harakiri, with mass meetings, Browder speeches...
...white pine, white-painted Grand Hotel waddled fat little Harrison Spangler, all set to rig up the Republican Party for its biggest blunder in a decade. As G.O.P. National Chairman, he had arranged matters with the exact and elaborate ritual of a Jap nobleman about to commit harakiri...
...screen roughhouse. But as symbol, the result is rather ominous. Ryan finally punches the Jap to the floor, is last seen dying from the effects of indescribable Japanese torture. Taro is shot down in flames by U.S. planes; his father atones for his political errors by calmly committing harakiri...
There was nothing unbelievable about this story to the Japanese, who recognize facts as relative and variable shadows of certain innate truths incomprehensible to all Westerners. When an unpleasant fact does embarrass the Japanese, they either ignore it or else commit harakiri...