1. In Japan, Samurai warriors would carry out Seppuku, a ritual suicide by disembowelment, rather than fall into enemy hands.

2. Obligatory seppuku was a method of capital punishment for a samurai, who would be beheaded by a second once he had made an initial stab wound himself.

3. There was the honorable seppuku of samurai and the cowardly cyanide of Nazis.

4. A Japanese citizen failed in his attempt to commit Seppuku, a form of ritual suicide by disembowelment, in front of the Houses of Parliament in Tokyo Monday after police foiled his bid.

5. Samurai could also be ordered by their daimyo (feudal lords) to commit seppuku.

6. If a mission failed, you were supposed to make your apologies with a seppuku knife, like General Saito did after the Saipan landings.