0 (in Japan, especially in the past) a formal way of killing yourself by cutting open your stomach with a sword
I hope that he will not now be tempted to commit hara-kiri, and that none of us will be forced to do so, either.
Are we justified in committing hara-kiri for no reason?
I do not know what to do, except to go off and commit hara-kiri as a result of that particular item of news.
I cannot believe that this is necessarily a superior form of hara-kiri though it may be more comfortable.
They have to perform under it a very difficult and complicated operation something like hara-kiri or self-vivisection.
One may say that a party which has committed hara-kiri so soon after birth has not a great deal to contribute.
This is a form of intellectual hara-kiri.
So hara-kiri is a spoken term, but only to commoners and seppuku a written term, but spoken amongst higher classes for the same act.
