Word: kiri
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Insult-Extraordinary, you repair again to the Insulter's home, and standing upon the door sill, disembowel yourself with a sharp knife. This is the final retort (hara-kiri), to which there can be no reply...
However, although young Furoda had announced himself extraordinarily insulted, and although he seized a hara-kiri knife and rushed in a towering rage to the house of his insulter, he failed to disembowel himself upon the doorstep. Instead, when Insulter Yamamoto opened his door, In-sultee Furoda, violating every canon of Japanese etiquette, plunged the short sharp blade not into his own vitals, but into those of the astounded Farmer-Laborite, who died instanter...
Once their success seemed so doubtful that General Manager Naokishi offered to commit hara kiri, if she felt that he had mismanaged. For answer Mme. Suzuki turned over her entire affairs to M. Naokishi and went off with her children for a summer in the mountains. When she returned bankruptcy had been averted, and soon the War boom made her Japan's richest woman...
...York University submitted that economic pressure was to "blame," citing suicidal phenomena during hard times and times of saturation in sentimental fiction in Germany. . . Dr. Alfred Adler of Vienna, psychoanalyst, reminded people that the motive for suicide is often a neurotic desire for revenge, as in Japanese hara-kiri (self-disembowelment) upon the doorstep of an insulter...
...from the crowd, Hirayama tried to leap upon the running board and force his petition into Prince Hirohito's hand. Swift, a police sergeant seized him before he could touch the Imperial car. At the police station he said: "Had my mission been successful would have committed hara kiri immediately in atonement for disrespectfully approaching the Prince Regent...