seppuku

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He said such shame could only be washed away by committing seppuku - a form of suicide by disembowelment, also known as hara-kiri - at a meeting of the Japanese cabinet after Kishida's return.

From Reuters

“I loved it. But it’d be committing theatrical seppuku to transfer it,” a theater critic mutters to another at the show’s after party.

From New York Times

Result: Mishima and his crew were mocked by the soldiers at the base; he committed seppuku, or ritual suicide.

From Los Angeles Times

Nobunaga ended his own life by performing seppuku, a ritual suicide.

From BBC

The samurai practice of seppuku, or hara-kiri, was something he had described in gory detail a decade earlier in his short story “Patriotism”:

From Washington Post