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Moriori were forbidden to marry Moriori or Māori or to have children. This was different from the customary form of slavery practised on mainland New Zealand. [17] A total of 1,561 Moriori died between the invasion in 1835 and the release of Moriori from slavery by the British in 1863, and in 1862 only 101 Moriori remained.
The Moriori are the first settlers of the Chatham Islands (Rēkohu in Moriori; Wharekauri in Māori). [3] Moriori are Polynesians who came from the New Zealand mainland around 1500 CE, [4] [5] which was close to the time of the shift from the archaic to the classic period of Polynesian Māori culture on the mainland.
A Former police officer Mitsuru Nakata kills his wife and two children [40] 6 October 2017: Komatsu family murder: Hitachi, Ibaraki: Hirobumi Komatsu 6 Hirobumi Komatsu killed his wife and five children by stabbing, he then set the bodies on fire. [41] 31 March - 1 April 2018 Hioki murders: Hioki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu: Tomohiro Iwakura 5
Hara-kiri is a Japanese reading or Kun-yomi of the characters; as it became customary to prefer Chinese readings in official announcements, only the term seppuku was ever used in writing. So hara-kiri is a spoken term, but only to commoners and seppuku a written term, but spoken amongst higher classes for the same act.
They are popular characters in Japanese art, literature, and theater [13] and appear as stock villains in the well-known fairytales of Momotarō (Peach Boy), Issun-bōshi, and Kobutori Jīsan. Although oni have been described as frightening creatures, they have become tamer in modern culture as people tell less frightening stories about them ...
A pair of characters from Kyūshū, one with long legs and the other with long arms. Ashinazuchi and Tenazuchi Children of Ōyamatsumi and the parents of Kushinadahime, whom Susanoo saved from the Yamata-no-Orochi and later married. They are the grandparents of Yashimajinumi, which makes them ancestors of Ōkuninushi. Atago Gongen
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel later adapted into various anime series, manga, light novels and films. Each characters mostly appear in every arc, including Keiichi Maebara, along with his female friends, Rena Ryugu, Mion and Shion Sonozaki, Satoko Hojo and Rika Furude.
Yoshio Kodaira (小平 義雄, Kodaira Yoshio, 28 January 1905 – 5 October 1949) was a Japanese serial killer, serial rapist, and war criminal who murdered at least 8 people in the Tokyo and Tochigi Prefecture areas between 1932 and 1946.