In Japanese culture suicide has been considered an honorable way of avoiding shame or dishonor in one’s life. For many years and centuries suicide was the way to go when something bad happened against a person. The battlefield example is the most widely known form of suicide. Soldiers would commit suicide to avoid being captured by the enemy. The battlefield suicides lead the way for the Japanese to create a way of formally committing suicide on the battlefield; seppuku. In turn seppuku found its way into culture as the most widely known way of committing suicide.
Seppuku is literally translated into “ritual killing.” English recognizes seppuku as hara-kiri, which means “cutting the stomach.” Seppuku is believed to have b
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