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Seppuku as judicial punishment was abolished in 1873, shortly after the Meiji Restoration, but voluntary seppuku did not completely die out. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] [ 31 ] Dozens of people are known to have committed seppuku since then, [ 36 ] [ 34 ] [ 37 ] including General Nogi Maresuke and his wife on the death of Emperor Meiji in 1912, and numerous ...
Pages in category "Suicides by seppuku" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Akamatsu Mitsusuke;
The code of the Shinsengumi, famously created by Hijikata Toshizō, included five articles, prohibiting deviation from the samurai code , leaving the Shinsengumi, raising money privately, taking part in others' litigation, and engaging in private fights. The penalty for breaking any rule was seppuku. In addition, if the leader of a unit was ...
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Lipsky, 63 N.E.2d 642 (Ill. 1945), the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, did not allow a married woman to stay registered to vote under her birth name, due to "the long-established custom, policy and rule of the common law among English-speaking peoples whereby a woman's name is changed by marriage and her husband's surname becomes ...
Some time after the Zenzaiya incident he tried to escape the Shinsengumi, despite the regulation against deserters. As a result, he committed seppuku with Okita as his kaishakunin on March 20 (lunar calendar February 23), 1865.
Pages in category "Seppuku from Meiji period to present" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Kenneth Granviel (August 4, 1950 – February 27, 1996) was an American serial killer and rapist who was responsible for the sexually-motivated murders of seven people in Fort Worth, Texas from 1974 to 1975, most notably the mass murder of three women and two children. [1]