hara-kiri

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But in the case of Yukio Mishima, the Japanese author known for novels including “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion” who died by ritual hara-kiri suicide in 1970,these two dimensions are neck and neck.

From New York Times

He favored quick, dramatic moves; on his first day at Dunlop, he ousted 11 of the company’s 13 board members, something The Times of London deemed “management by hara-kiri.”

From Seattle Times

Framed as the killer, Ogami is ordered to commit hara-kiri, but instead takes to the countryside as a ronin — a masterless samurai — seeking revenge.

From Washington Post

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

Campaign strategists largely regard unprompted confessionals as a pointless form of political hara-kiri.

From Washington Post