Suicides by sharp instrument in Japan

samurai of the Satsuma domain, supreme commander of Japanese army, one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (1828-1877)

Japanese general (1849-1912)

Imperial Japanese Navy admiral (1891-1945)

general in the Imperial Japanese Army (1887–1945)

Japanese long-distance runner (track and field)(1940–1968)

Japanese general (1887–1945)

Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator (1952–2010)

Japanese general (1895-1945)

or , also known as , was a Japanese historical figure in the late Sengoku period. She was the concubine and the second wife of Japanese ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi. As the mother of his son and successor Hideyori, she acted as Hideyori's guardian in the restoration of the Toyotomi clan after the fall of the Council of Five Elders, and alongside her son, led the last anti-Tokugawa shogunate resistance in the siege of Osaka.

Japanese journalist and politician (1886–1943)

Japanese general (1876-1945)

The was a group of around 305 young teenage samurai of the Aizu Domain, who fought in the Boshin War (1868–1869) on the side of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Japanese writer (1869-1908)

Japanese novelist, Olympian (1913–1949)

Japanese reiki practitioner (1880–1940)

Japanese physician

knife attack

Japanese literary critic (1932–1999)

political activist

Samuari who fought in the Boshin War

samurai