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Word: nishikigaura (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1951-1951
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...signs erected at Mihara volcano, Nishikigaura inlet and Kegon waterfall near Tokyo, favorite spots for Japanese suicides. Despite this earnest entreaty, some 500 Japanese, taught by Japanese tradition that self-destruction offers an honorable solution to all kinds of trouble, leaped into the lava, the ocean and the abyss beneath the waterfall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Public Welfare | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

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