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