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Asked if he would commit harakiri, Yamashita grinned and shook his close-cropped head: "Hara-kiri? No, no harakiri." A U.S. soldier who had helped establish contact with Japan's ferocious "Tiger of Malaya" conferred on him a new nick name: "The Gopher of Luzon...
...many Japanese the shame of surrender was even harder to take. "Large numbers" of people, reported Radio Tokyo, were committing hara-kiri before the Imperial Palace...
There is a right and a wrong way to commit harakiri. In the case of General Anami and Vice Admiral Onishi, it is presumed that they donned the usual ceremonial robes, knelt on a dais, surrounded by friends and officials. When the jeweled hara-kiri dagger had been handed to them, they would have made many bows to the Emperor. Then they would have plunged the razor-like dagger into the left side below the waist, at the same time drawing it toward the right. They would thus have fulfilled the hara-kiri command: to die with honor, when...
...than a thousand yards square; Fleet Admiral Nimitz announced that organized resistance had ended. There was mopping-up still to be done: a few hundred of the enemy held out with machine guns, rifles and grenades. In the final pockets many of the enemy were killed; some committed hara-kiri with grenades or by jumping off the cliffs; some surrendered...
...unconditional surrender. Apparently the militarist rulers of Japan, though they might be willing to part with most of their conquests in Asia, would not accept a surrender that meant their end. Apparently Premier Suzuki's words spelled out their determination to gird the nation for a hara-kiri resistance...