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  • I certainly was not going to kill myself, although I kept looking behind me, for the traditional Japanese seppuku also known as hara-kiri ceremony involves an attendant who chops off your head with a sword at the moment you are supposed to plunge the dagger into your abdomen.

    Patrick Takahashi: Suicide Dreams Patrick Takahashi 2011

  • The restaurant is also known in the local community as Bab Al-hara, which is also the name of a popular TV show in the middle east.

    NJ Dining: Al-Safa (Bab Al-hara) 2009

  • I certainly was not going to kill myself, although I kept looking behind me, for the traditional Japanese seppuku also known as hara-kiri ceremony involves an attendant who chops off your head with a sword at the moment you are supposed to plunge the dagger into your abdomen.

    Patrick Takahashi: Suicide Dreams Patrick Takahashi 2011

  • They also follow a tradition called hara hachi bu, pushing away from the table when they're only 80 percent full.

    CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2009 2009

  • It's called hara hachi bu, and what that means is, eat until you're only 80 percent full.

    CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2007 2007

  • It's called hara hachi bu, and what that means is, eat until you're only 80 percent full.

    CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2007 2007

  • They also follow a tradition called hara hachi bu, pushing away from the table when they're only 80 percent fool.

    CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2007 2007

  • Hodima moo, ho ne ho hlakile ho nna hore ha nako e ntse e ya, le itekile ka matla ho utlwisisa merero e rarahaneng e leng lenaneong la Khansele e Akaretsang ya Bobedi ya Naha, le bomeo ba ka hara naha boo re lokelang ho bo ela hloko.

    Puo ya ho kwala mosebetsi ya MoPresidente wa African National Congress, Thabo Mbeki, Khanseleng e akaretsang ya bobedi ya naha ya ANC Tshwane 2005

  • It was obvious that he was an athlete of some kind, but it was his presence, what the Japanese called hara, that made him such an extraordinarily intimidating figure.

    The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

  • The following year, a man stabbed himself in the stomach in a re-creation of the ritualistic Japanese suicide known as hara-kiri to protest

    latimes.com - News 2010

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