Japanese Man Attempts Ritual Suicide in front of Japanese Parliment
source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090817/wl_asia_afp/japanpoliticsincidentstabbing_20090817032629
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TOKYO (AFP) – A Japanese man stabbed himself in the stomach outside Japan's parliament building on Monday August 17th, police and ambulance services said, in an apparent suicide attempt by ritual seppuku disembowelment.
"We are now investigating his motivation," a police spokesman said.
"The injured man was taken to hospital immediately," said a spokesman for Tokyo emergency services.
Japan's Jiji Press said the man, 39, had survived and appeared to be a member of a right-wing nationalist group.
Japan faces a general election on August 30.
Seppuku is a form of ritualistic suicide once practiced by samurai warriors.
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Now that's what I call a protest! Forget signboards and silly slogans! Blood and guts will show them! Especially when you do it yourself by the painful method of ritual disembowelment which in old days samurai would be allowed a second to behead them to cut short their extreme pain.
Seppuku was performed to avoid the humiliation of capture in battle, to save face, to atone for wrong doing, or to make a strong protest. Oda Nobunaga, one of Japan's foremost warlords of the 16th Century, was said to have changed his earlier frivolous ways when his mentor committed seppuku in protest of his lord's behavior.
Hara kiri is the more vulgar form of the word.
"We are now investigating his motivation," a police spokesman said.
"The injured man was taken to hospital immediately," said a spokesman for Tokyo emergency services.
Japan's Jiji Press said the man, 39, had survived and appeared to be a member of a right-wing nationalist group.
Japan faces a general election on August 30.
Seppuku is a form of ritualistic suicide once practiced by samurai warriors.
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Now that's what I call a protest! Forget signboards and silly slogans! Blood and guts will show them! Especially when you do it yourself by the painful method of ritual disembowelment which in old days samurai would be allowed a second to behead them to cut short their extreme pain.
Seppuku was performed to avoid the humiliation of capture in battle, to save face, to atone for wrong doing, or to make a strong protest. Oda Nobunaga, one of Japan's foremost warlords of the 16th Century, was said to have changed his earlier frivolous ways when his mentor committed seppuku in protest of his lord's behavior.
Hara kiri is the more vulgar form of the word.
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I am interested in his motivation.
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I would have used the Frisbee in Mouth technique, per RealUltimatePower.net
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