Word: kiri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the Socialists (see above) seemed like any other modern, democratic electoral competition. But there were reminders of a more ancient Japan. On election eve a Buddhist priest from Hiroshima, who disagreed with Kishi's foreign policy, used a 5-in. dagger to disembowel himself in ceremonial hara-kiri in front of the Premier's official residence. And there was also something decidedly un-Western about the election of all six candidates nominated by the Soka Gakkai sect...
...gentleman in a world that has no use for gentlemen." Decent, limited, middleaged, he is as set in his honorable ways as any samurai in his Bushido. and step by inevitable step the story describes how he is driven to commit what might be called O'Hara-kiri -he drinks himself to death...
...Hara-Kiri. When Billy Graham accepted CICCU's invitation to Cambridge last August (he insisted on paying his own expenses), there was a flurry of nattering pro and con in the letters columns of the Times. "The recent increase of fundamentalism among university students cannot but cause concern," wrote an Anglican canon. "Universities exist for the advancement of learning. On that basis, therefore, can fundamentalism claim a hearing at Cambridge...
...Great, official church of Cambridge University, arranged for Billy to use his pulpit. Though regretting CICCU's "exclusive attitude" of noncooperation with other religious bodies, he explained: "We must continue to help them when we can, providing we are not expected to commit intellectual hara-kiri...
...Chinese vase, the Yoshida Liberals brooded and concluded that defeat was sure. At 1 p.m. on the 13th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the Liberal Party made its decision: to resign before a vote. It remained solely thereafter to inform Shigeru Yoshida, and to lay the hara-kiri knife of resignation before him. The party's chosen emissary for this work, a hawk-faced man, turned pale at the prospect of facing the old autocrat, but complied...