Word: kiri
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...predilection of the Japanese for this vigorous act was well shown last week, when a new Japanese cinema drama was released in which 47 of the characters commit hara-kiri to the delight of movie fans...
...exercises are to include religious services at the grave of the "Unknown Patriot" who committed hara-kiri (suicide by evisceration) near the grounds of the old U. S. Embassy as a protest against "the exclusion of Japanese from the U. S." Mass meetings and other pacific demonstrations are scheduled and a list of names of representative Japanese, together with their opinions, are to be collected in a book, translated, sent to U. S. Congressmen, Chambers of Commerce, newspapers...
...body of the unknown Japanese patriot who committed hara-kiri several months ago close to the compound of the former U. S. Embassy (TIME, June 9) as a protest against the enactment of the U. S. Immigration Bill (TIME. April 28, June 2, et seq.) is to be disinterred from Aoyama Cemetery and reinterred in the military cemetery where lie some of Japan's greatest heroes...
...unknown patriot and give him what is virtually a national burial. In the military cemetery, a great tomb will be erected over the grave, and its position will be near the last resting place of General Nogi who distinguished himself in the Russo-Japanese War and who committed hara-kiri on the night of the funeral of the Emperor Meiji...
...memory of his deed will be a stimulus to haired of the United States nor that nationalists and militarists will make the most of the tradition to kindle the spirit of war. Americans may never be able to comprehend the tangled heritage of poetry and religion that gives hara-kiri such a control over the Eastern imagination, but at least they may see the results of such control. A hint may even filter through to the effect that what to one nation may seem nothing but a diplomatic incident to another may become an issue of national importance...