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Mass Hara-Kiri...
...Gorer traces to Japanese parents' sensitiveness to ridicule of an ill-behaved child by outsiders). The Japanese, says Gorer, do not stick together well under attack; they readily turn against a fellow countryman placed in a ridiculous position by outsiders-a fact which, he thinks, accounts for hara-kiri and the frequent changes in Japanese military leadership...
...American tossed a grenade and it knocked the Jap down. He struggled up, pointed his bayonet into his stomach and tried to cut himself open in approved hara-kiri fashion. The disemboweling never came off. Someone shot the Jap with a carbine. But, like all Japs, he took a lot of killing. Even after four bullets had thudded into his body he rose to one knee. Then the American shot him through the head and the Jap was dead...
...Jappetite for bloodshed. It contains 49 successful murders and suicides, a few unsuccessful ones. The story tells how 47 faithful Ronin (knights), led by one of the Rōnin, Yuranosuke, avenge the assassination of feudal War Lord Yenya. Having dispatched the assassin, Prince Moronao, all 47 commit hara-kiri at Yenya 's grave - as a sign that their oath of feudal loyalty holds good even to death...
...wounded. They could have kept on fighting. They had plenty of ammunition left. They had raided American supply dumps for food. But so eager for death were they that they could not wait. The grenades they could have thrown against Americans were pressed against their bowels in honorable hara-kiri fashion...