THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
II.UU-K.MII. Ilic i-.rnt '■hari-kari" is now u-vd I. ics.ly t-> mean any hum ol suicide in .1... -• n. It belong- really to tin' curious custom of oliicial suicide formally recognised in that country. All military men. and imtsoiis holding civil offiees under the (iovernment. were held bound, when they had committed an offenec. to disembowel i lictn-eh <». This they did in n‘solemn and diginiied manner, in the preseme of otlicials and other witnesses, hv one or t
gashes with n short, sharp sword or dagger. Japanese gentlemen were trained to regard hari-kari its an honourable expiation of crime or blotting out of disgrace. It is the survival of the old lielief that lies lieliind the present wave of suicide as a sacrifice to the national humiliation.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1924, Page 2
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130THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1924, Page 2
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