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The Tuesday Book: Sex and seppuku in a Japanese garden Yukio Mishima's Report to the Emperor Richard Appignanesi Sinclair- Stevenson, pounds 16.99
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/2/2002; ; 522 words
; ...everyday life. On 25 November 1970, the day he completed his four-volume masterpiece, The Sea of Fertility, Mishima committed seppuku, or ritual suicide by disembowelment and beheading. What led Mishima to commit such a shocking act? This is the central quest...
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Slow seppuku: Japan's defence industry.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 6/10/1995; 700+ words
; THE circumlocution is superbly Japanese: It is necessary that Japan give consideration to international armament co-operation with the United States and other industrialised countries. But last month's message from the Keidanren, the main business federation, was clear: Japan's defence contractors
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Baseball Seppuku? The role of the bases-loading intentional walk in the 1999 playoffs.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: The Baseball Research Journal; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; At the ballpark, when the home team loads the bases, people stand up and cheer. You don't see many fans slapping their heads, saying, Rats, now there's a force at every base. I wish the bases weren't loaded. Yet in a surprising number of 1999's postseason games, the team in the field chose to load
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Advance to the beginning: a day in the life of a tech support specialist. (On Point: Gigglebytes).
Magazine article from: Computer User; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Seppuku Computers Technical Support. This is Jim. Can I help you...It. Now Windows won't boot What should I do? Insert your Seppuku Restore CD into the CD drive, reboot, and press Y to wipe...these if I can't get into Windows? Simple. Insert your Seppuku Restore CD into the CD drive, reboot, and press Y . ...
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Blood, Sweat & Pastry: The world's best chefs met in Las Vegas to battle it out in an Olympics-style competition. And when the sugar cleared, there was only one winner.
Magazine article from: Newsweek; 7/29/2002; ; 700+ words
; Byline: Devin Gordon There is no pastry-chef equivalent of seppuku, the ritualistic method of suicide for shamed samurai, but if there were, Jean-Philippe Maury looks about ready to commit it. For...
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Wildlife, natural and artificial: an interview with Peter Watts.(Interview)
Magazine article from: Extrapolation; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; The publication of Peter Watts' ssehemoth: Seppuku (2005), the final volume of the Rifters trilogy, brought to...Maelstrom (2001), ssehemoth: B-Max (2004), and ssehemoth: Seppuku (2005)--Watts elaborates the characteristics of our near-future-to-...
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In Japan, the Buck Stops at the Top; Chief Executives Take the Blame and Punishment When Scandal Hits
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/10/1995; ; 700+ words
; It's an age-old Japanese ritual as well-scripted as seppuku, the samurai's rite of suicide. Scandal shakes a major Japanese...over, his underlings were saved if he killed himself by seppuku," said Yoshisuke Iinuma, editor in chief of Weekly Toyo...
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Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Purer
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/1/2002; 593 words
; ...Nights," I'm entertaining the spectacular idea of a critic's seppuku. A ritual suicide, that is, before the horrified folks who...space in this seat is too cramped. And besides, I left my seppuku dagger at home. There is also the dim hope the movie could...
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Thread of an Idea
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/9/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...219 pp. $44.95 hardcover,$19.95 paperback On November 25, 1970, at the age of 45, Yukio Mishima committed ritual suicide, or seppuku, at a Japan Self-Defense Force facility in Tokyo. Surrounded by the student members of the Shield Society, his private paramilitary...
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A Good Sword is Hard to Find
Newspaper article from: The Broward Times; 10/20/2006; ; 599 words
; Fifth century Japanese warriors called it Hari Kari or Seppuku. When a samurai failed in his duty or disgraced himself or his benefactor, he was expected to atone for his dishonor by slicing...
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