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Voluntary death by drowning was a common form of ritual or honour suicide. [citation needed] The religious context of thirty-three Jōdo Shinshū adherents at the funeral of Abbot Jitsunyo in 1525 was faith in Amida Buddha and belief in rebirth in his Pure Land, but male seppuku did not have a specifically religious context. [28]
The jisei, or death poem, of Kuroki Hiroshi, a Japanese sailor who died in a Kaiten suicide torpedo accident on 7 September 1944. It reads: "This brave man, so filled with love for his country that he finds it difficult to die, is calling out to his friends and about to die".
Bakumatsu (幕末, ' End of the bakufu ') were the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended.Between 1853 and 1867, under foreign diplomatic and military pressure, Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as sakoku and changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the modern empire of the Meiji government.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American humanist and writer (17 August 1935), in her suicide note "Telephone and say that they must still enlarge it–Always larger, broader, more universal–It's the only means of saving the world." [3] — Henri Barbusse, French novelist and Communist (30 August 1935), referring to the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
According to character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, the original story for the series did not feature Lilith, but was included following the premiere of the series and some staff research performed on Christianity; [18] Sadamoto stated that Lilith's inclusion occurred because "not touching [her] seemed to hurt Anno's pride".
The hundred man killing contest (百人斬り競争, hyakunin-giri kyōsō) was a newspaper account of a contest between Toshiaki Mukai (3 June 1912 – 28 January 1948) and Tsuyoshi Noda (1912 – 28 January 1948), two Japanese Army officers serving during the Japanese invasion of China, over who could kill 100 people the fastest while using a sword.
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948 at age 78 in the compound of The Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti), a large mansion in central New Delhi.His assassin was Nathuram Godse, from Pune, Maharashtra, a Hindutva activist, [1] a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu paramilitary organization [2] as well as a member of the Hindu Mahasabha.
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