hara-kiri
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"We cannot commit hara-kiri with the hope of hurting Russia"
From Reuters ● Apr. 20, 2022
Campaign strategists largely regard unprompted confessionals as a pointless form of political hara-kiri.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2018
The historical basis lies in events at the beginning of that century, when a lord, Asano, was ordered to commit hara-kiri after a conflict with another lord, Kira.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2013
Some said it could have been "a little bit of professional hara-kiri," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2013
In the year 1869 a motion was brought forward in the Japanese parliament by one Ono Seigorô, clerk of the house, advocating the abolition of the practice of hara-kiri.
From Tales of Old Japan by Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron
