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  2. Death poem - Wikipedia

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    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".

  3. Seppuku - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. Death by burning - Wikipedia

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    First, in 1681, an enslaved woman named Maria was accused of trying to kill her enslaver by setting his house on fire. She was convicted of arson and burned at the stake in Roxbury . [ 106 ] Concurrently, an enslaved man named Jack, convicted in a separate arson case, was hanged at a nearby gallows, and after death his body was thrown into the ...

  5. A Note to a Certain Old Friend - Wikipedia

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    A Note to a Certain Old Friend (或旧友へ送る手記, Aru Kyūyū e Okuru Shuki) is the title of the suicide note left by the famed Japanese short story writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. [1] This was the last thing Akutagawa wrote before he committed suicide at the age of 35 in 1927. [ 1 ]

  6. List of last words (20th century) - Wikipedia

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    — 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

  7. Surrender of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians.

  8. Nanjing Massacre - Wikipedia

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    The death sentence imposed on Hirota, a six-to-five decision by the eleven judges, shocked the general public and prompted a petition on his behalf, which soon gathered over 300,000 signatures but did not succeed in commuting the Minister's sentence.

  9. Naruto: Shippuden season 10 - Wikipedia

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    But Naruto collapses from a panic attack over the events of learning what Sasuke has become and the prospect of even his friends wanting to kill Sasuke. Meanwhile, furious that Danzo assumes that he learned the truth of the Uchiha massacre from Itachi while deeming him truly a traitor, Sasuke uses his Susanoo to crush Danzo to death.