hara-kiri/seppuku 切腹自盡

hara-kiri/seppuku
繁：切腹自盡
简：切腹自尽

倭寇，泛指日本海盜，姦淫擄掠全部做齊。當時亦有指，淪為倭寇的日本人，大多是征戰失敗又不夠膽切腹自盡的日本人，由於沒有面目見家人，於是踏上海上旅程，四處掠奪。

陳嘉上讚倉田保昭寶刀未老（2017年6月2日）。文匯報，取自 http://paper.wenweipo.com/2017/06/02/EN1706020015.htm

Not surprisingly, ideas of piety within Confucianism that hit a chord with Watanabe – and certain cultural ideals based on seppuku (ritual suicide) within Japanese culture – along with the pains of poverty and being ruled by the state apparatus of Tokugawa – all built up within the cultural mind of Watanabe.

Watanabe Kazan and Japan Art: Ideals of Confucianism to bleakness of Seppuku. (2018, January 8). Modern Tokyo Times. Retrieved from http://moderntokyotimes.com/?p=8227

Suicide also does not suffer the religious stigma here it does in other cultures. Ritual suicide, known as seppuku or hara-kiri, has long been portrayed in movies and theater as an honorable way to take responsibility.

American blogger apologizes for video of apparent suicide. (2018, January 2). The Republic. Retrieved from http://www.therepublic.com/2018/01/02/as-japan-logan-paul/