Knife goes in, guts come out.

[BO-SENSEI]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iWpokDNk10dZ9RrucifLaumZPy9w

Nationalist stabs self outside Japan parliament
(AFP) – 8 hours ago

TOKYO — A Japanese right-wing nationalist stabbed himself in the stomach Monday outside the parliament building in an apparent suicide attempt by ritual seppuku disembowelment, police said.

The 39-year-old man, who survived, had demanded that lawmakers visit Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni war shrine, which has been avoided by most elected politicians in recent years, a local broadcaster reported.

"He carried a warning letter against parliament members," a Tokyo police spokesman said, adding that the man had said he was a member of a right-wing nationalist group.

The man stabbed himself in the stomach with a short Japanese sword with a blade about 20 centimetres (eight inches) long, police said. Television images showed bloody clothes and a wooden sheath on the ground.

Japan's right-wing activists demand that the prime minister and cabinet members as well as Emperor Akihito visit the shrine, which honours some 2.5 million Japanese war dead as well as 14 convicted war criminals.

Most politicians have avoided the site after politicians' past pilgrimages to the shrine, seen as a symbol of its past militarism, angered China, the two Koreas and other Asian neighbours.

Last Saturday, the 64th anniversary of Japan's 1945 defeat in World War II, only one cabinet member, Consumer Affairs Minister Seiko Noda, went to the site while Prime Minister Taro Aso and others stayed away.

Emperor Akihito has never visited the shrine.

Seppuku is a form of ritualistic suicide once practiced by samurai warriors.

[kurohinge1]

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Mmm, let me see. An undesirable group that's prepared, if they don't get their unreasonable demands, to . . . kill themselves.

Wow, . . . I think I know the answer to this one.

Why don't we . . . do nothing!

Ah, but then I'd so miss that confused look I get, when I hand our recycling to those nice fellows in the noisy black vans.

[sublight]

If only more of them would protest this way.

[Midwinter]

*sighs* Japanese thoroughness just isn't what it used to be

[xenomorph42]

If only more of them would protest this way.

Maybe encouraging the masses would be a good idea to start, I'm all for it!:D

[IkemenTommy]

A Japanese right-wing nationalist stabbed himself in the stomach Monday outside the parliament building in an apparent suicide attempt by ritual seppuku disembowelment, police said.

If only more of them would protest this way.

One less uyoku retard. Wait, he didn't die? He completely failed.

He ought to try it again and put it up on youtube.

[BO-SENSEI]

One less uyoku retard. Wait, he didn't die? He completely failed.

He ought to try it again and put it up on youtube.

At first you don't succeed...

Seriously, you don't want to go down in history as the guy who quit because it hurt too much. You were supposed to die for your country, what kind of example are you setting? That you should give up if it gets too painful? That it is ok to quit? That's not the Japanese way of doing things. You have brought shame to your country, you are a quitter.

[IkemenTommy]

At first you don't succeed...

Seriously, you don't want to go down in history as the guy who quit because it hurt too much. You were supposed to die for your country, what kind of example are you setting? That you should give up if it gets too painful? That it is ok to quit? That's not the Japanese way of doing things. You have brought shame to your country, you are a quitter.

[pheyton]

I'm waiting for the great Chrysanthemum, Takepoo, to grace us with his Janglish and then perform ritual seppuku failure.

[Level3]

In this modern age, stabbing yourself once in the gut (avoiding a thrust into the heart or any easily accessible major arteries in the neck or leg) with a blade in a major metropolitan area on a weekday during hospital admittance hours is not really attempted suicide, is it.

If he REALLY wanted to die, he should have stabbed himself at 3AM early Sunday morning during the tail end of O-Bon vacation in Osaka.

Heck, 8PM on a Thursday would still probably get him an ambulance tour of a dozen hospitals before he bleeds out.

Itai!

What a pussy.

I just demand that he pay 100% of his medical bill, and not the standard 30% while letting national insurance cover the rest.

[IkemenTommy]

Just jump in front of an oncoming Yamanote line train will leave you with body parts all over the track and a quick painless death. No wait, shit, don't do that! I gotta get home too, you know.

[xenomorph42]

In this modern age, stabbing yourself once in the gut (avoiding a thrust into the heart or any easily accessible major arteries in the neck or leg) with a blade in a major metropolitan area on a weekday during hospital admittance hours is not really attempted suicide, is it.

If he REALLY wanted to die, he should have stabbed himself at 3AM early Sunday morning during the tail end of O-Bon vacation in Osaka.

Heck, 8PM on a Thursday would still probably get him an ambulance tour of a dozen hospitals before he bleeds out.

Itai!

What a pussy.

I just demand that he pay 100% of his medical bill, and not the standard 30% while letting national insurance cover the rest.

Better yet...

If he were a real warrior, he would have jumped off a 110 meter cliff (like the former South Korean President) talk about having some Brass plated balls.
But we're talking if he were a REAL warrior or man!]if you can't do something right, don't do it at all[/B]!"

[Hikonejou]

Now that's a True Samurai!

These No Balls Politicians have lost their "Yamato Spirit".

I believe the Japanese have the right and moral obligation to pay respect to their War Dead.

[Dragonette]

Now that's a True Samurai!

No Way!
If he were serious he would have gotten a good friend to lop off his head with a katana as soon as he showed any sign of chickening out!

[xenomorph42]

No Way!
If he were serious he would have gotten a good friend to lop off his head with a katana as soon as he showed any sign of chickening out!

Hey, when in doubt...

[Buraku]

hara-kiria and ruskies

Former Russian leader Medvedev says Kishida should ritually disembowel himself

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/ ... a-seppuku/