Word: harakiri
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...until he woke up in a Chinese hospital. The Japanese courtmartial, when these facts had been established, complimented Major Kuga and dismissed him with all honor-but his hero's brain throbbed with the madding, ignominious fact that he had been "captured." Major Kuga wished to commit harakiri-to disembowel himself with his sword-but his own sword had been broken in the battle, an aggravation of his shame. Brooding and white-lipped Major Kuga walked last week to the exact spot on Shanghai's battlefield where the hand grenade had knocked him unconscious. There, putting his service...
...clasped hands on the rear seat of their automobile in a tightly closed garage until asphyxiated by carbon monoxide from the exhaust. For 32 years the Colemans had been Quaker missionaries in Japan. They had steeped themselves in Japanese Bushido, the ethical code of the samurai which prescribes harakiri for those facing shame. Learning that Clara B. McGill, a destitute young girl whom the Colemans had sheltered, had made a complaint that Horace Coleman Jr. had betrayed her, they left a note: "This way accords with our peculiar ideas in cases where conditions warrant it." In Mrs. Coleman...
...excitement in Manhattan's Raw Silk Exchange where trading reached almost 4.000 bales a day after being at 80 a few weeks ago. Startled pages and clerks hurried to put their summer linen-suits on a fortnight ahead of time. In Tokio, Japanese bears talked of harakiri. On the Coffee & Sugar Exchange, Manhattan, coffee continued its recent rise which had begun to die out; sugar started its first rally in months. Some $25,000,000 was added to the value of sugar supplies. Along the Gold Coast native farmers gathered in British villages to receive cable despatches which told...
...article by Oland D. Russell, whom Carl E. Milliken, secretary of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, quotes as saying: ''Missionaries and movies are two of the most considerable American exports to Japan but . . . the Hollywood product has more to do with the decline of harakiri there . . ." (TIME, Letters...
...Milliken's well-written advertisement quoted correctly, but wisely abstained from drawing certain distinctions. "Harakiri" is only one form of suicide, at which the Japanese are peculiarly adept. Newsman Russell admits the Western screen is encouraging Japs to restrain from their heroic belly-cutting, BUT (here Mr. Milliken forgot to quote) AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHER FORMS OF SUICIDE. "A Japanese authority who has studied suicide in his country." says Mr. Russell . . . "blames the movies for the increase of other forms of self-despatch...