Hara Kiri is literally "The cutting of the stomach". It is another word for Seppukku, where a person who feels his or her honor is damaged beyond repair would commit ritual suicide by slashing the...
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Hara-kiri means literally 'cutting the belly'. It is a colloquial and considered somewhat vulgar term for 'Seppuku, a ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai men in...