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自殺: 408 Terms and Phrases

自殺
suicide
kill oneself
suicidal
self-slaughter

自殺の
suicidal

自殺的
suicidal

自殺者
person who commits suicide

自殺既遂
completed suicide

自殺する
commit suicide
kill herself
kill himself
kill oneself
take one's (own) life

自殺関与
instigation or assistance in suicide

群発自殺
cluster suicide

自殺未遂
attempted suicide
suicide attempt
unsuccessful suicide

自殺協定
suicide pact

自殺行為
suicidal act
self-destroying action
suicidal action
suicidal behavior

狂言自殺
faked suicide
mock suicide

自殺幇助
aiding and abetting a suicide
assisted suicide
assisted death

集合自殺
group suicide
mass suicide
arranged suicide of two or more people

服毒自殺
poison suicide
suicide by poisoning

飛込自殺
committing suicide by throwing oneself in front of an onrushing train

飛降自殺
killing oneself by jumping (e.g. from a tall building)
plunging to one's death

集団自殺
group suicide
mass suicide
arranged suicide of two or more people

焼身自殺
burning oneself to death
suicide by fire
Self-immolation

投身自殺
throwing oneself to one's death
precipitating oneself to one's death
leaping to one's death
killing oneself by jumping

自殺完遂
completed suicide

拡大自殺
Suicide by cop

自殺企図
suicide attempt
attempted suicide

自殺攻撃
Suicide bombing

自殺行動
suicidal behavior

幇助自殺
assisted suicide

自殺傾向
suicidality

自殺予防
suicide prevention

自殺念慮
suicidal ideation
suicidality
suicide intent
suicidal thought

自殺衝動
suicidal impulses

厭世自殺
killing oneself out of despair (disgust with life)

いじめ自殺
suicide caused by bullying or harassment
bullying-related suicide

投身自殺者
leaper

自殺者行為
suicide

自殺する.
do away with oneself

自殺企図者
suicide attempter

自殺未遂者
would-be suicide
suicide attempter

自殺を図る
to attempt suicide

首吊り自殺
suicide by hanging

後追い自殺
following someone's example, and committing suicide

飛込み自殺
committing suicide by throwing oneself in front of an onrushing train

飛降り自殺
killing oneself by jumping (e.g. from a tall building)
plunging to one's death

自殺1回。
a suicide,

自殺の名所
List of suicide sites

自殺遺伝子
suicide gene

自殺未遂行為
parasuicide
parasuicidal

飛び込み自殺
committing suicide by throwing oneself in front of an onrushing train

飛び降り自殺
killing oneself by jumping (e.g. from a tall building)
plunging to one's death

自殺者です、
It was a suicide

自殺系サイト
Internet suicide

自殺した人物
Suicides

医師自殺幇助
physician-assisted suicide

自殺サークル
Suicide Club (film)

自殺する行為
the act of killing yourself

自殺うさぎの本
The Book of Bunny Suicides

自殺導入遺伝子
suicide transgenic gene

自殺遺伝子治療
suicide gene therapy

自殺遺伝子療法
suicide gene therapy

自殺したモデル
Models who committed suicide

自殺対策推進室
Office for Policy of Suicide Prevention

自動車による自殺
autocide

服毒自殺(する)
suicide by taking poison

国際自殺防止協会
International Association for Suicide Prevention

塩籠は自殺した。
Shioko committed suicide.

彼は自殺をした。
He committed suicide.

山田寺で自殺する。
He committed suicide at Yamada-dera Temple.

蘇我蝦夷自殺する。
Emishi SOGA commits suicide

意図的に自殺する人
a person who kills himself intentionally

天安門焼身自殺事件
Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident

自殺サイト殺人事件
Hiroshi Maeue

国の自殺率順リスト
List of countries by suicide rate

完全自殺マニュアル
The Complete Manual of Suicide

末期患者は自殺した
the terminally ill patient committed suicide

自殺関与及び同意殺人
Inducing or Aiding Suicide; Homicide with Consent

自殺した有名人の一覧
List of suicides

自殺関与・同意殺人罪
Assisted suicide

彼女は昨日自殺した。
She killed herself yesterday.

太宰治は、自殺した。
Osamu Dazai killed himself.

彼女は自殺を企てた。
She attempted suicide.

彼は首つり自殺した。
He hanged himself.

「自殺する気ですか！」
'Do you want to commit suicide?'

ある日、彼は自殺した。
One day he killed himself.

自殺しようとしている。
You're trying to commit suicide.

知性は自殺したのです。
It had committed suicide.

自殺と推察されている。
It was deemed a suicide.

参事官（自殺対策担当）
Director for Policy of Suicide Prevention

自殺は絶望的な行為だ。
Suicide is a desperate act.

彼女は自殺寸前だった。
She was on the border of killing herself.

彼女は自殺未遂をした。
She tried to commit suicide.

喫煙は自殺を意味する。
Smoking means suicide.

人生は自殺への逃避行。
Life lies a slow suicide.

彼は首吊り自殺をした。
He committed suicide by hanging himself.

彼は今朝銃で自殺した。
He shot himself this morning.

彼は自殺しようとした。
He tried to kill himself.

その人気歌手は自殺した。
The popular singer committed suicide.

複数の手段を使用した自殺
multiple means used suicide

自殺的な企業乗っ取り戦略
a suicidal corporate takeover strategy

彼女は自殺しようとした。
She attempted to kill herself.

彼は毒を飲んで自殺した。
He killed himself by taking poison.

彼は自殺しようと思った。
He thought he would kill himself.

毒殺とも自殺とも言われる。
Some say he was murdered by poisoning but others say he killed himself.

自殺することは、犯罪である
it is a crime to commit suicide

彼女は自殺をしようとした。
She tried to commit suicide.

彼女は毒を飲んで自殺した。
She killed herself by taking poison.

彼は３０歳の時に自殺した。
He killed himself at the age of thirty.

彼は自殺の真似事をやった。
He put on a suicide act.

絶望した彼は自殺を図った。
Despair drove him to attempt suicide.

訊問後、佐伯全成は自殺した。
After the questions, SAEKI no Matanari committed a suicide.

- 蘇我石川麻呂が自殺した。
- Soga no Ishikawa maro committed suicide.

その男は自殺したはずがない。
That man can't have committed suicide.

ここが彼が自殺した場所です。
This is the place where he killed himself.

林は寺の裏山で自殺を図った。
Following the incident, he attempted to commit suicide on the hill behind the temple.

彼女は昨夜自殺しようとした。
She tried to kill herself last night.

彼女は３０歳の時に自殺した。
She killed herself at the age of thirty.

その小説のヒロインは自殺した。
The heroine of the novel committed suicide.

太宰治は３９歳の時に自殺した。
Osamu Dazai killed himself at the age of thirty-nine.

彼の自殺は失恋の結果であった。
His suicide came as a result of his disappointment in love.

小関三英は逮捕をまたず自殺した。
Sanei KOSEKI committed suicide before being arrested.

大友皇子（弘文天皇）が自殺した。
Prince Otomo (Emperor Kobun) committed suicide.

長屋王の変で自殺に追い込まれた。
She was forced into suicide in the Nagayao no Hen (Conspiracy of Nagayao).

その作家は自分の書斎で自殺した。
The author killed himself in his study.

その詩人は自分の書斎で自殺した。
The poet committed suicide in his study.

新聞によると彼が自殺したようだ。
The newspaper says that he committed suicide.

アシスタントが医者である幇助自殺
assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician

日本で実践された制度化された自殺
institutionalized suicide as practiced in Japan

彼女は橋から身を投げて自殺した。
She committed suicide by jumping off the bridge.

彼は高い窓から飛び降り自殺した。
He committed suicide by jumping out of a high window.

彼女が自殺したというのは本当か。
Can it be true that she committed suicide?

彼は絶望のあまり、服毒自殺した。
He lost hope and killed himself by taking poison.

三島由紀夫は１９７０年に自殺した。
Yukio Mishima killed himself in 1970.

最近青少年の自殺があとをたたない。
There seems to be no end to the number of young people committing suicide these days.

ここがその作家が自殺した部屋です。
This is the room where the author killed himself.

自殺を予防する自殺事例報道のあり方
Suicide prevention

果安は帰ってから首を刺して自殺した。
Hatayasu committed suicide by stabbing his neck after he returned.

その詩人は自分の書斎で自殺を試みた。
The poet attempted to commit suicide in his study.

1582年3月11日、天目山で自殺。
On March 11, 1582, he committed suicide in Tenmoku-zan Mountain.

彼は悲嘆にくれて、首吊り自殺をした。
He was heartbroken and hanged himself.

翌日大友皇子は自殺し、内乱は終結した。
On the following day, Prince Otomo committed suicide and the domestic conflict ended.

- 蘇我蝦夷が自宅に火を放ち自殺する。
- Soga no Emishi set his house on fire and committed suicide.

男は死を、自殺のことを考えていました。
He thought of death, of suicide;

「では、彼自身の死因は自殺だったと！」
'Then his own death was suicide!'

私が驚いたことには、彼は服毒自殺した。
To my shock, he killed himself by taking poison.

刀で自分の腹を切ることによる儀式的自殺
ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword

事が漏れたことを知って塩籠は自殺した。
Shioko committed suicide, realizing that his plans had been exposed.

彼女が、自殺した理由は知られていない。
The reason she killed herself is unknown.

彼は息子に会えなければ自殺するだろう。
He will commit suicide if he can't see his son.

なぜ彼が自殺をしたかはいまだに謎である。
Why he killed himself is still a mystery.

警察はその事件で自殺の可能性を否定した。
The police ruled out the possibility of suicide in the case.

自殺を考える程の大きなショックを受ける。
He was so shocked that he considered committing suicide.

文明を更新し再建して世界を自殺から救う。
To renew and rebuild civilization and save the world from suicide.

彼女がなぜ自殺したのかは今なお謎である。
It is still a mystery why she killed herself.

彼は自殺しようとしたが、未遂に終わった。
He tried to kill himself but it ended in failure.

彼女が自殺したということなどあり得ない。
It is impossible that she should have killed herself.

11月29日、山城屋和助が陸軍省内で自殺。
On November 29, Wasuke YAMASHIROYA committed suicide inside the building of the Ministry of Army.

藩内に混乱が起こり信武は自殺（宇陀崩れ）。
However, Nobutake committed suicide (Uda Disturbance) due to the disorders within the domain

大友皇子は翌日自殺し、壬申の乱は終わった。
Prince Otomo committed suicide the next day, and it was the end of the Jinshin War.

その後、通説では、自殺したと伝わっている。
Afterwards, in popular lore he committed suicide.

その不幸なできごとがもとでかれは自殺した。
The unhappy event made him put an end to himself.

栄養的に、彼女の新しい食事療法は自殺行為だ
nutritionally, her new diet is suicide

夫が死んだ時彼女は自殺したい気分になった。
When her husband died, she felt like committing suicide.

息子に会えなければ、彼は自殺するでしょう。
He will commit suicide if he can't see his son.

彼は彼女の愛を失ったので自殺しようとした。
He tried to kill himself because he lost her love.

翌日には蘇我蝦夷が自らの邸宅に火を放ち自殺。
The next day, SOGA no Emishi set fire to his house and killed himself.

「ブレシントンが、自殺をしちまったんですよ」
``Blessington has committed suicide!''

「あなたが自殺を見つけたのはいつ頃ですか？」
``When did you find it out?''

運命に甘んじるくらいなら自殺したほうがいい。
I would rather kill myself than reconcile myself to my fate.

いじめによる高校生の自殺が相次いでいました。
Suicides of high school students as a result of bullying continued one after another.

また、腹を切って割腹自殺したという話もある。
Moreover, there is another story that he committed suicide by kappuku (the fixed form of suicide committed by former samurai class) by himself.

彼女は息子が自殺するとは夢にも思わなかった。
Little did she dream that her son would commit suicide.

息子に会えなければ、彼は自殺をするでしょう。
He will commit suicide if he can't see his son.

同じ日に大友皇子は自殺し、壬申の乱は終わった。
Prince Otomo committed suicide on the same day, and it was the end of the Jinshin War.

しかしこれより前に、鉏鉤は山に隠れて自殺した。
Sahichi, however, had committed suicide secretly in a mountain before that.

翌14年にお葉は自殺を図り、半年後に別離する。
In 1925, the following year, Oyo attempted suicide, and six months later she broke up with Yumeji.

直ちに剃髮して仏門に入り、薬子は服毒自殺した。
He immediately shaved his head and became a Buddhist priest; Kusuko committed suicide by taking poison.

「分からないのは、この最後の急な自殺騒ぎです」
``It is this last sudden move.''

――レーナー君、これは何だね、自殺じゃないね。
This is no suicide, Mr. Lanner.

ヒットラーは自殺したと先生は私におっしゃった。
The teacher told me that Hitler killed himself.

一説に没落を悲しんでの入水自殺といわれている。
Some suggest that he killed himself, grieving for his fall.

今日の朝刊によればその死刑囚は自殺したようだ。
According to today's morning paper, the condemned criminal committed suicide.

浮舟が薫・匂宮との三角関係に悩み、自殺を決意する
Ukifune suffered distress because of the love triangle with Kaoru and Niou Miya, and decided to commit suicide.

23日に大友皇子が自殺し、24日に捕らえられた。
In August 24, Prince Otomo committed a suicide, and in August 25, Akae was arrested.

教会の墓地の片隅に自殺者の死骸はうめられました。
In a corner of the churchyard the corpse of the suicide was shovelled into the earth,

その著名な詩人は自分の書斎で自殺を図ろうとした。
The prominent poet attempted to commit suicide in his study.

彼が彼女を欺いたときに彼女は彼を殺させ自殺をした
when he deceived her she had him killed and then committed suicide

1930年、大阪の早川徳次の家で首吊り自殺した。
In 1930, she killed herself by hanging in Tokuji HAYAKAWA's home in Osaka.

鶴川は、自殺の前に柏木のみに本心を打ち明けていた。
Tsurukawa had confided his real feelings only to Kashiwagi before taking his own life.

大友皇子が翌日自殺したことで、壬申の乱は終わった。
Prince Otomo committed suicide the next day, and Jinshin War came to an end.

後日、父・蝦夷も自殺し、ここに蘇我宗本家は滅びる。
Some days later, his father Ezo also commited suicide, and the main Soga family was ended here.

- 蘇我入鹿が山背大兄王を攻め、数日後に王は自殺。
- SOGA no Iruka attacked Prince Yamashiro no oe, and a few days later the prince committed suicide.

自殺しようにも、怖じ気づいてしまってダメなんです」
and when I try to kill myself I funk it.'

人が涙をだして泣くときには、自殺はしないものです」
and when a man has had his cry out he doesn't kill himself.

自分の運命に甘んじるくらいなら自殺した方がましだ。
I might as well kill myself as reconcile myself to my fate.

自殺の決意を彼女の自我の芽生えと評価する向きもある。
Some people appreciate her resolution of committing suicide as the awakening of self-awareness.

直隷総督裕禄（ゆうろく）は敗戦の責を取って自殺した。
Yuroku, who was the Governor General of Zhili, took responsibility for the lost battle and committed suicide.

(朴泳孝・徐載弼の家族は服毒自殺、処刑等にされる。)
(The families of Yong-hyo PAK and Jae-pil SEO were forced to commit suicide by taking poison or were executed.)

同じ日に大友皇子が自殺したことで壬申の乱は終わった。
Prince Otomo's death, as he committed suicide on the same day, brought an end to the Jinshin War.

この計画は韓国に知られ、失敗を悟った塩籠は自殺した。
Karakuni detected Shioko's betrayal, and Shioko committed suicide knowing that his plot was failed.

翌23日に大友皇子（弘文天皇）が自殺し、乱は終わった。
On the following day, Otomo no Oji committed suicide and the Jinshin War came to the end.

老母はこれを見てかなしみのあまり使者の面前で自殺した。
In her grief, the aged mother killed herself in front of the messenger.

この混乱で軍の前進は止まり、蘇我果安は返って自殺した。
Due to this chaos, the army stopped to advance and SOGA no Hatayasu came back by himself and committed suicide.

大坂で自殺した8世団十郎の死絵は200余種、出たという。
There were more than 200 different kinds of Shini-e produced for the case of the eighth Danjuro ICHIKAWA, when he committed suicide in Osaka.

後でそれが大変な悲劇、つまり六段目の勘平自殺につながる。
This leads to a big tragedy later, namely Kanpei's suicide depicted in Act Six.

そうだとすれば、この自殺を公表してもよいものだろうか？　
and in that case, can we venture to declare this suicide?

その上、この規則は自殺的で、自らの根拠を切り崩すのです。
The rule, besides, is suicidal, and cuts away its own foundation.

ロメオはジュリエットが死んだと信じ、自殺しよう決心した。
Romeo, believing that Juliet was dead, decided to kill himself.

2人以上の人物が決まった場所と時間に一緒に自殺をする約束
an agreement by two or more people to commit suicide together at a given place and time

死因は病死説もあるが、近年では自殺説が有力となっている。
He was said to die of disease, but recently, a theory claiming that he died of suicide has been widely accepted.

残酷な男であるはずの柏木にのみ手紙で本心を伝えて自殺した。
He disclosed only to Kashiwagi, who was believed to be a ruthless man, how he really felt in his letters, before he killed himself.

鉄砲渡しの千崎も（物語には書かれないが）切腹自殺で終える。
SENZAKI of Teppo watashi also commits seppuku (though this is not depicted in the story).

彼の自殺もやはりその頃に行われたのじゃないかと思うんです。
That would be about his time for hanging himself.

訓練されて、自殺的な事故を引き起こす気持ちがあるパイロット
a pilot trained and willing to cause a suicidal crash

自殺の疑いがもたれ警察で調べたが、結論は公表されていない。
Although the police investigated the possibility of suicide, but the results were not publicized.

（沙至比跪は天皇の怒りが収まらないことを知ると自殺した。）
(Sachihiko who found that the emperor's anger would not be calmed killed himself.)

耐えられない圧迫から逃れるために自殺に走る子供たちもいる。
Some children resort to suicide in order to escape from unbearable pressure.

山城屋は公金返済が不可能であったため、陸軍省内部で割腹自殺。
Since YAMASHIROYA was unable to repay the public money, he committed suicide through disembowelment inside the building of the Ministry of Army.

このため、月照も死を覚悟し、隆盛と共に錦江湾に入水自殺した。
These events led Gessho to make the decision to take his own life, and he and Takamori attempted to drown themselves in Kinko-wan Bay.

淡路守＞【寛永元年9月藩主就任－慶安元年8月20日自殺改易】
Governor of Awaji Province> 'appointed as the lord of the domain in September, 1624 - suicide on 20 August 1648, and Kaieki (punishment by removal of samurai status and expropriation of territories)'

叛乱を興すものの、追い詰められ兄妹ともに稲城の中で自殺する。
Although he rose in revolt, he was cornered and the brother and sister killed themselves in Inagi Castle.

彼は人の自己尊厳のほうが重要だという理由で、自殺を擁護する。
He defends suicide on the grounds that one's self-dignity is more important.

(自殺未遂から、函館労音事務員として受け入れられ、救われる。)
(He made a suicide attempt, and then he was accepted as a Hakodate Room clerk, which has saved him.)

中国の割腹自殺と、日本の切腹の起源の関連については不明である。
The relationship between Chinese suicide by disembowelment and Japanese seppuku is unclear.

天文18年（1549年）、父が自殺したため7歳で家督を継いだ。
In 1549, his father committed suicide and Kanesada succeeded his father as the head of the family at the age of seven.

同日、近江では大友皇子の軍が瀬田で敗れ、翌日に皇子は自殺した。
On the same day, the army of Otomo no Oji was defeated at Seta of Omi Province, and the next day, Otomo no Oji committed suicide.

ところが天平元年（729年）に長屋王の変が起き長屋王は自殺した。
However, Nagayao no Hen (Conspiracy of Nagayao) happened in 729 and Nagayao killed himself.

こうした低劣な刺激が屈する危険が生じるとすぐ、自殺したのでした。
and sooner than permit himself to run even the risk of yielding to these base promptings he slew himself.

ウェルギリウスによれば、アイネイアースに捨てられて自殺したという
Virgil tells of her suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas

大友皇子は7月23日に自殺に追い込まれ、金はその後に捕らえられた。
Prince Otomo was forced to kill himself on August 24 and then Kane was captured.

高校3年生のときに父が謎の自殺をしたので、母の郷里の名古屋に移る。
Since his father killed himself for unknown reasons when he was in his third year of high school, he moved to Nagoya, where his mother was from.

1886年（明治19年）8月8日大審院長在職中に自殺（享年62）
On August 8, 1886, TAMANO committed suicide at the age of 62, still being in the office of Daishin-in.

殉死者が自殺する場合と、体制側が強制的に殉死者を選別する場合がある。
There are two cases of junshi: in one case, a person voluntarily kills himself or herself and in the other case, a regime selects a person to perform junshi compulsorily.

切腹（せっぷく）は、みずからの腹部を刀で切り裂いて死ぬ自殺の一方法。
Seppuku is a method of suicide that involves cutting the abdomen with a sword.

二人は自殺しよう争うはずみに、あやまって清吉はおさよを殺してしまう。
They struggle in an suicide attempt, when Seikichi kills Osayo by mistake.

その直後に、右大臣の石川麻呂は謀反の密告があり、自殺に追い込まれた。
Right after this, ISHIKAWA no Maro was tipped off for his treasonous act and was forced to take his life.

探偵小説の中で行われる犯罪は、決して事故や自殺でまとめてはならない。
18. A crime in a detective story must never turn out to be an accident or a suicide.

彼の母親は事情聴取のために京都に呼ばれ、その帰りに保津峡で投身自殺。
His mother was called to Kyoto to talk with the police and on her way home, she committed suicide by jumping from Hozukyo Gorge.

美貌で知られ、疱瘡で顔に傷痕が残って醜くなり自殺したとも言われている。
Another theory is that he killed himself because he suffered from the ugly scars left by smallpox which deformed his once celebrated beautiful face.

さらに、身重だった通盛の妻の小宰相も夫の後を追って入水自殺してしまう。
Kozaisho, who was Michimori's wife and was pregnant, commited suicide by drowning after her husband died.

蝦夷の子の蘇我入鹿は山背大兄王を襲い、上宮王家一家を自殺に追いこんだ。
SOGA no Iruka, Emishi's son, attacked the Prince Yamashiro no Oe, and drove the whole family of Jogu Oke to commit suicide.

松井は抱月の死後、芸術座の公演を続けたが、やがて抱月の後を追って自殺。
Matsui continued the performances of the Geijutsuza after Hogetsu's death, but subsequently she committed suicide to follow him.

7月23日に大友皇子（弘文天皇）が自殺したことで、壬申の乱は終わった。
On August 24, Prince Otomo (Emperor Kobun) killed himself and the Jinshin War ended.

配流される途中に近江国蒲生郡で自殺し、幕政においても一派が追放される。
Imamairi committed suicide in Gamo County, Omi Province while in the midst of her banishment; one party of the Shogunate was also exiled.

地元では自殺の原因は父親との金銭的なトラブルによるものだと見られていた。
The locals took it that her suicide was due to a financial trouble with her father.

西郷が月照と共に入水自殺を図った際、奇跡的に助かった西郷の看病を務めた。
He cared for Saigo who had committed suicide by drowning with Gessho and miraculously survived.

藤原吉子・伊予親王母子が処罰され2人は自殺したが、後に無罪が認められた。
FUJIWARA no Yoshiko and her son Imperial Prince Iyo were punished and they committed suicide, but they were found not guilty later on.

これは、「アポトーシス＝細胞の自殺＝腹切り」という連想から名付けられた。
This name was given due to the fact that apoptosis is a form of self-induced cell death.

もう一人の友人の鶴川は、養賢に対し本心を開かないまま自殺して人生を閉じる。
Another friend, Tsurukawa, ended his life by committing suicide before opening up to Yoken.

切腹を自殺の方法として用いる例は、明治時代以降も軍人や右翼の間に見られる。
Examples of seppuku as a method of suicide following the Meiji period can be seen among soldiers and members of the right wing.

同年3月、一ノ谷の合戦前後に戦線を離脱した兄の維盛が那智の沖で入水自殺する。
In April of the same year, Sukemori's older brother, Koremori, who had left the battlefront around the time of the Battle of Ichinotani, drowned himself off the coast of Nachi.

しかし事件から2週間後、金剛山中で二人の自殺死体が発見され、事件は解決した。
Two weeks after the incident, however, the case came to an end as they committed suicide and their corpses were found in Mt. Kongo.

栃木県日光市の華厳滝で「巌頭之感」を書き残して投身自殺した藤村操は甥である。
Misao FUJIMURA, who committed suicide at Kegon Falls, Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture, with the farewell note titled 'Gonto no Kan' (Thoughts at the edge of Kegon Falls), was Michiyo's nephew.

この時、一休は師の遷化によるものかは断定できないが、自殺未遂を起こしている。
Whether it was because of the death of his teacher is difficult to determine, but IKKYUU attempted suicide around that time.

平頼盛は兜の頂に熊手を掛けられ、また、平徳子は入水自殺を熊手によって阻まれた。
A kumade was used to hook the top of TAIRA no Yorimori's kabuto (helmet), and another was used to prevent TAIRA no Tokuko from drowning himself.

母の狭穂姫命はその兄狭穂彦王の興した叛乱（狭穂姫命狭穂毘古の叛乱）の際に自殺。
His mother Sahohime no mikoto killed herself, involved in the rebellion (Rebellion of Sahohime no mikoto and Sahohiko no miko) touched off by her elder brother Sahohiko no miko.

第二次世界大戦で日本軍パイロットによる自殺的な特命飛行のために用いられた戦闘機
a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II

オクタビアンによって捕獲されるのを避けるために自殺した（紀元前69年−30年）
killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC)

ある日、住職と衝突した正順は幻滅と怒りから寺に放火し、逮捕されたのちに自殺する。
One day, Seijun quarreled with the chief priest, set fire to the temple out of disappointment and anger, was arrested, and committed suicide.

東宝劇団時代に伊藤雄之助を自殺する寸前にまで追い込むなど厳しい態度で臨んでいる。
His attitude toward acting was so stern and resolute that while he was at Toho Theater Company he pushed Yunosuke ITO to the brink of committing suicide.

文禄4年（1595年）7月28日、秀次事件で連座により秀吉から自殺を命じられた。
In July 28, 1595, he was ordered to commit suicide by Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI due to the involvement with the Hidetsugu Incident.

勝機のないことを知った平城上皇は平城京に戻って剃髮し、薬子は毒を仰いで自殺した。
Aware of the inability to win the battle, Retired Emperor Heizei returned to Heijokyo and took the tonsure, and Kusuko kiled herself by poisoning.

多くの学者は海外に逃れ、中国に留まった熊十力は激しい迫害を受け自殺したといわれる。
Many scholars fled abroad, and Yu Juriki (Xiong Shili), who remained in China is believed to have committed suicide after suffering fierce persecution.

永禄10年（1567年）10月には義信を廃嫡し、自殺に追い込んだ（病死説もあり）。
In November 1567, he disinherited Yoshinobu, and forced him to commit suicide (it is also said that he died of disease).

翌6月13日、蝦夷は舘に火を放ち『天皇記』、『国記』、その他の珍宝を焼いて自殺した。
The next day, on June 13, Iruka set his house on fire to commit suicide, burning down rare items like 'Tennoki' (Record of the Emperors) and 'Kokki' (National Record).

山背大兄王は斑鳩寺に戻り、王子とともに自殺して聖徳太子の血をひく上宮王家は滅亡した。
After returning to Ikaruga-dera Temple, Prince Yamashiro no Oe committed suicide with his children which led to the fall of Jogu Oke by leaving no descendants of Prince Shotoku.

翌23日に追撃を続けて犬養五十君と谷塩手を粟津市で斬ると、大友皇子は山前で自殺した。
When the Oyomi troop finally killed INUKAI no Ikimi and TANI no Shiote the next day, Prince Otomo committed suicide in Yamamae.

1573年、信長の家臣・佐久間信盛率いる織田軍に攻められた義継は自殺して宗家が滅ぶ。
In 1573, when he was attacked by Nobumori SAKUMA, one of the Nobunaga's vassals, Yoshitsugu killed himself and the head family of Miyoshi clan died out.

後生動物が細胞数を制御し、動物の生存を脅かす細胞の除去を可能にする細胞自殺メカニズム
a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number and eliminate cells that threaten the animal's survival

すでに弟の平清経が豊後国で入水自殺しており、一ノ谷では14歳の師盛が討ち死にしている。
His younger brother, TAIRA no Kiyotsune, had already drowned himself in Bungo Province, and Moromori had been killed in battle at Ichinotani at the age of 14.

672年（白鳳元年）の壬申の乱では大友皇子（弘文天皇）の側につき、皇子の自殺まで従う。
He fought for Prince Otomo during the Jinshin War in 672, and followed him as his commander until Prince Otomo's suicidal death.

天智天皇の死後、672年の壬申の乱で大友皇子の将軍になったが、内訌を起こして自殺した。
After the death of Emperor Tenchi, he became shogun on the side of Prince Otomo in the Jinshin War of 672, but committed suicide after having internal discord.

なお、日本以外では、ドイツの地政学者カール・ハウスホーファーが、切腹自殺を遂げている。
Outside of Japan, the German geopolitician Karl Haushofer committed seppuku.

入鹿の父・蘇我蝦夷も自邸を焼いて自殺して蘇我本家は滅び、古人大兄皇子は後ろ盾を失った。
Since Iruka's father, SOGA no Emishi set fire to his own house and committed suicide, the soga clan ended and Furuhito no Oe no Miko lost his backer.

死亡時、十市皇女はまだ30歳前後でありこの不審な急死に対しては、自殺説・暗殺説もある。
Tochi no Himemiko was at the age of around 30 when she died and, about this sudden and mysterious death, there are theories that she killed herself and that she was assassinated.

できるだけ無痛で尊厳のある形で死ねるように手助けをする人を必要とする、末期的患者の自殺
suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible

奈良時代のさる天皇の寵愛を失った采女が猿沢池に投身自殺したとされ、その霊を慰める祭り。
It is believed that Uneme who had lost emperor's favor committed suicide by jumping into the pond in the Nara period; Unemematsuri has been held to let the soul of the Uneme rest in peace.

のちに高野山に入って出家し、熊野三山を参詣して3月末、那智の沖の紀の松島で入水自殺した。
Later, he became a priest at Mt. Koya, made a pilgrimage to Kumano Sanzan (three major shrines of Kumano-Hongu-Taisha, Kumano-Hayatama-Taisha, and Kumano-Nachi-Taisha) and in May, committed suicide by drowning himself in the sea around the Ki no Matsushima islands off Nachi.

9月12日 (旧暦)、平城上皇は平城京に戻って剃髮して出家し、薬子は毒を仰いで自殺した。
On September 12 (according to the old calendar), the Retired Emperor Heizei went back to Heijo-kyo, shaved his head and became a monk, while Kusuko committed suicide by poisoning herself.

その寺では、計算を間違えて和尚に叱られた坊主が、その木で首を吊って自殺したと言われいる。
A young Buddhist monk is said to have committed suicide by hanging himself from that tree when he made a mistake in calculating with abacus and was reprimanded by the chief monk.

しかし、義教の姿勢はかわらず、絶望した僧侶たちは2月、根本中堂に火を放って焼身自殺した。
However, when Yoshinori did not change his position, the disappointed monks set fire to the Konponchudo Hall in February and killed themselves.

貞経は懸命に戦ったが、同年2月29日に有智山城にて自殺することを余儀なくされてしまった。
Although Sadatsune fought hard against them, he was in the end forced to kill himself in Uchiyama-jo Castle on February 29 of the same year.

しかし、そのために邪魔になる聖徳太子の王子、山背大兄王ら上宮王家の人々を自殺に追い込んだ。
However, he drove those obstructive people in Jogu Oke (royal families) such as Prince Shotoku's son, Prince Yamashiro no Oe to suicide.

そして実際に死の恐怖がなかったなら、ずっと前に私を破滅にまきこむために自殺していただろう。
and indeed, had it not been for his fear of death, he would long ago have ruined himself in order to involve me in the ruin.

それからヘンリー L.パルメトー、後にタイムズ・スクウェアで地下鉄の正面に飛び出し、自殺。
and Henry L. Palmetto, who killed himself by jumping in front of a subway train in Times Square.

ヒンドゥー教徒の寡婦の行為で、亡くなった夫を火葬する薪の上で、自らの意志で焼身自殺すること
the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband

壇ノ浦の戦いで、宗盛が入水自殺を図った際、これをからめ取ろうとした伊勢義盛と闘って戦死した。
When TAIRA no Munemori tried to commit suicide by drowning at the naval battle of Danno-ura, he fought with Yoshimori ISE who tired to catch Munemori and bind him up and was killed.

また最後の総督である安藤は、戦後戦犯とみなされ拘束され、1946年に上海において自殺している。
Ando, the last Governor-General, was arrested as war criminal after the war and killed himself in Shanghai in 1946.

翌1911年1月18日、二クロム酸カリウムで服毒自殺を図り、翌日未明に24歳の若さで死亡した。
On January 18, 1911, the following year, she committed suicide by taking potassium dichromate, and died at dawn of the following day at the age of merely 24.

大宰府を元家人である緒方惟義に追い落とされたことをきっかけとして、豊前国柳浦にて入水自殺した。
He was dislodged from Dazai-fu (local government office in Kyushu region) by his former retainer Koreyoshi OGATA, and it led him to throw himself into the sea at Yanagi ga ura Bay in Buzen Province to his death.

府庁前で死後見苦しからぬようにと両足を手拭で括って、剃刀で咽喉と胸部を深く切って自殺を謀った。
In front of the prefectural office, she tied her legs together with a towel to avoid appearing ugly after the suicide, and committed suicide by cutting her throat and chest deeply with a razor.

父の知盛は寿永4年（1185年）の壇ノ浦の戦いで入水自殺し、母は一命を助けられて京都に戻った。
In the Battle of Dannoura in 1185, his father Tomomori committed suicide by jumping into water and drowning himself but his mother was rescued and returned to Kyoto.

近現代でも、文化大革命のとき、無実の罪で糾弾された共産党員が、公衆の面前で割腹自殺した例がある。
Even in the modern era, there are examples of Communist Party members accused of crimes that they did not commit taking their own lives by cutting their abdomens in public during the Cultural Revolution.

昭和の時代にかけて、作家や芸術家のあいだに薬物や自傷による自殺が流行するのも、この頃からである。
It was from this period to the beginning of the Showa period that drugs and suicide became popular among writers and artists.

大海人皇子は「鉏鉤は功ある者である。罪なくしてなぜ自殺したのか。これは陰謀があったのか」と言った。
Prince Oama said 'Sahichi had produced achievements, I wonder why he committed suicide with no crime; was there a conspiracy?'

切腹は日本独特の習俗とされるが、これに近い割腹自殺は中国にも存在する(中国語では「剖腹」と言う)。
Seppuku is considered to be a uniquely Japanese custom but a similar practice of committing suicide by cutting the abdomen also exists in China (called 'pou fu' in Chinese').

手で握りしめ割れている薬ビンと部屋に漂う強烈な匂いからして、アターソンは自殺したことを見てとった。
and by the crushed phial in the hand and the strong smell of kernels that hung upon the air, Utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a self-destroyer.

父弘文天皇は母方の祖父、天武天皇との皇位争いに敗れて自殺、母十市皇女も早世(自殺・暗殺説もある。）
His father, the Emperor Kobun who was out in the succession to the imperial throne against his maternal grandfather, the Emperor Tenmu, committed suicide, and his mother, Hochi no Himemiko also died young (There are theories saying she committed suicide or was assassinated.)

672年の壬申の乱のとき尾張国国司守として大海人皇子（天武天皇）に味方したが、内乱集結後に自殺した。
Although he supported Prince Oama (Emperor Tenmu) as Owari no kuni no Kuni-no-mikotomochi-no-kami (the provincial governor of Owari Province) in the Jinshin War of 672, he committed suicide after the war had ended.

君も一人の貴人を殺し、しかしてその妻を自殺させて、もうそれで万事休矣（ばんじきゅうす）というものさ。
You have ended by bringing about the death of a noble man and driving his wife to suicide.

――普通、自殺と云うものは、朝の五時頃に行われるのが一番多いと云うことはあなたも御存じの通りですが、
It's about five in the morning, you know, that suicides are most common.

この際、政清も同時に殺害されたため、嘆き悲しんだ忠致の娘（政清の妻）は川に身を投げて自殺したとされる。
Masakiyo was also killed at the time, the daughter of Tadamune (the wife of Masakiyo) is said to have committed suicide by throwing herself into the river due to great sorrow.

文治5年（1189年）閏4月義経を自殺に追い込み、義経の首を頼朝に引き渡す事で頼朝との和平を模索した。
In May 1189, Yasuhira attacked and made Yoshitune commit suicide, and sought to reconcile with Yoritomo by delivering Yoshitune's head to Yoritomo.

ちなみに中国では、割腹自殺は、日本と違い、むしろ武人でない者が自分の誠意を披瀝するための自決法であった。
However, this method of suicide as practiced in China was different to Japanese seppuku, as it was a method of suicide that was used by people other who were not warriors in order to express their sincerity.

次に何がくるのだろうかというわたしのその時の気分は、自分の頭に拳銃をあてた自殺者さながらだったでしょう。
I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.

彼女の恋人レアンドロスが彼女に会うためにヘレスポントを泳ごうとして溺れた時に、自殺したアフロディテの尼僧
priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her

父の早世もあって一門の中では孤立気味であり、平氏一門が都を落ちたのちに戦線を離脱、那智の沖で入水自殺した。
Partly because his father died young, he tended to be isolated in the clan; he left the front line after the Taira clan fled from Kyoto, and committed a suicide by drowning himself in the sea off Nachi.

7月、石田三成らが家康討伐の兵を挙げ、大坂にあった忠興夫人・ガラシャは包囲された屋敷に火を放って自殺した。
In July, Mitsunari ISHIDA and other vassals under Hideyoshi raised an army against Ieyasu, and surrounded by this army in Osaka, Tadaoki's wife Gracia set their residence on fire and took her own life.

これは近江国の瀬田で近江朝廷の軍が大敗した日にあたり、翌日に大友皇子（弘文天皇）が自殺して内戦は終わった。
It was the day that the army of the Omi Imperial Court was heavily defeated in Seta, Omi Province, and the civil war ended with the suicide of Prince Otomo (Emperor Kobun) on the following day.

ものの、異母兄の大鷦鷯尊（おおさざきのみこと、後の仁徳天皇）に皇位を譲るべく自殺したという美談で知られる。
Then Prince Uji no Wakiiratsuko would commit suicide in order to pass the Imperial Throne to Prince Osazaki (Osazaki no Mikoto, later Emperor Nintoku); this episode became a well known and beautiful story in Japan.

672年の壬申の乱のとき河内国国司で、大海人皇子（天武天皇）に従おうとして軍を集めたが、露見して自殺した。
He was the Provincial Governor of Kawachi Province during the Jinshin War in 672, and tried to raise an army under the orders of Prince Oama (Emperor Tenmu), but committed suicide after his plans were exposed by the enemy.

むやみに自殺を否定しようとは思いませんが、親が子どもを道連れにするのはぜったいにやめてほしい、と思います。
I don't intend to flatly reject suicide, but I really wish parents would not make their children join in with them.

峠の山が薄暗いためか、昭和期には、頂上付近で縊死自殺をするものが多いとされ、自殺の名所として知られていた。
Since the mountain of the mountain pass was dark, there were many who committed suicide by hanging near the mountain top during Showa period and is noted as a famous suicide place.

巣鴨拘置所に出頭を命じられた最終期限日の1945年12月16日、荻外荘でシアン化カリウムを服毒して自殺した。
On December 16, 1945, the deadline for him to present himself at Sugamo detention center he committed suicide by swallowing potassium cyanide at Tekigaiso.

比叡山延暦寺とも対立し、最終的にこれを屈服させたものの、僧侶たちが根本中堂を焼き払って自殺する騒ぎとなった。
He had also conflicted against Enryaku-ji Temple on Mt. Hiei, and finally he brought them to his knees, but caused a huge fuss that priests burned the Konpon-chudo Hall and killed themselves.

匂宮と薫の板ばさみで追い詰められ、自殺を図った浮舟 (源氏物語)は淀川沿いの大木の根元に昏睡状態で倒れていた。
Ukifune, who had attempted suicide after being driven into a corner due to a dilemma between Nioumiya and Kaoru, lay in a coma at the foot of a big tree situated along the Yodo-gawa River.

「慎機論」などによる幕政批判の罪で渡辺崋山は伝馬町入牢ののち、国元蟄居（その後自殺）、高野長英は入牢となった。
Kazan WATANABE was put in prison in Denmacho town for criticizing the bakufu in 'Shinkiron' (personal document criticizing the bakufu) and then was confined to his house (later committed suicide), and Choei TAKANO was sent to prison.

また、当時の一高での受け持ちの生徒に藤村操がおり、やる気のなさを漱石に叱責された数日後、華厳の滝に入水自殺した。
In those days, Soseki scolded Misao FUJIMURA, a student in his charge in Daiichi High School, for lack of drive, and several days later, Misao drowned himself in Kegon no taki Fall.

孝徳天皇4年、石川麻呂は冤罪で自殺に追い込まれているが、これも大化の政権の政権基盤が脆弱だった可能性を示している。
In 648, Ishikawamaro was driven to suicide because of a false charge, this also indicating a possibility that the political footing of the Taika regime was weak.

なお、上記した終戦時に自殺を思いとどまった軍人達の中にはこの記述を知っていた者もかなりの人数がいたと言われている。
As mentioned above, it is said that many soldiers of those who stopped themselves from committing suicide, knew about the description.

しかしいざ自殺の実行の段階に至ると、どうしても思い切る事が出来ず、「鬼が私を喰い殺してくれれば」と嘆き悲しんでいた。
When actually committing suicide, however, she didn't dare to do so and deplored saying 'I wish to be eaten by an ogre.'

だが母親は実家がある大江（現京都府与謝野町）への帰途、山陰本線の列車から亀岡市馬堀付近の保津峡に飛び込んで自殺した。
However, the mother jumped from the train of the Sanin Main Line into Hozukyo (Hozu Gorge), located in Umahori, Kameoka City, to end her life on her way back home in Oe (present day Yosano-cho, Kyoto Prefecture).

追い詰められた秀胤はかねてから用意していた薪炭に火を放って4人の息子をはじめとする一族郎党163名とともに自殺した。
Desperately cornered Hidetane committed suicide with 163 people in total including his family members with four sons and his retainers, by setting fire to wood and coal prepared in advance.

狭衣の愛を信じられない飛鳥井女君は、狭衣の子を妊娠したまま乳母にだまされて筑紫へ連れ去られ、その途中で入水自殺を図る。
Asukai no Onnagimi is unable to have faith in the love of Sagoromo and, while pregnant with his child, is cheated by her wet nurse and taken away to Tsukushi but attempts to commit suicide on the way by drowning herself.

皇帝が尋ねると、科挙に失敗したため自殺したが、玄宗皇帝に手厚く葬られたため恩義に報いてはせ参じた鍾馗という人物だった。
When the emperor asked the general about his identity, the general replied that he was a person named Shoki who failed the imperial civil service examination and committed suicide, but revived to reciprocate the favor of the emperor who kindly buried the dead reverently.

しかしその直前の慶安元年（1648年）8月20日、紀通は福知山城中にて鉄砲自殺して果て、稲葉氏も改易となったのである。
However, Norimichi shot himself to death with a rifle within Fukuchiyama Castle on October 6, 1648 immediately before the order was carried out and the Inaba clan was dismissed from the post and replaced by someone else.

浮舟が行方不明になり、後に残された女房たちは自殺入水を計ったと悟って嘆き悲しみながらも、真相を隠すために急遽葬儀を行う。
Ukifune is lost, and remaining court ladies sense that she must have drowned herself, so they hold a funeral to hide the truth, lamenting over her death.

山城屋事件は1872年（明治5年）陸軍省の御用商人山城屋和助が陸軍省から無担保で借り受けた公金を返済できず自殺した事件。
The Yamashiroya Incident was an incident that Wasuke YAMASHIROYA, a government contractor for the Ministry of Army, committed suicide when he was unable to repay the public money he had borrowed from the Ministry without collateral in 1872.

新聞や世間からの激しい攻撃に耐えられず自殺した、と一般にいわれるが、この時点では彼女を非難する内容の報道はされていない。
It is generally said that she killed herself because she could not bear severe attacks from the press and the public; however, no news blaming her had been reported at that point.

元暦2年（1185年）3月、壇ノ浦の戦いにおいて最終的な敗北を喫し、従兄弟の平資盛、平有盛とともに入水自殺（平家物語）。
In March 1185, the Heike clan was finally defeated at the battle of Dan-no-ura, and Yukinori and his cousins, TAIRA no Sukemori and TAIRA no Arimori, killed themselves by jumping into water and drowning ('Heike Monogatari' [The Tales of the Heike]).

イギリス人というものが、ときどきよこしまな考えにとりつかれて、自殺という向こう見ずな手段に訴えることはよく知られている。
Knowing that Englishmen governed by a fixed idea sometimes resort to the desperate expedient of suicide,

中大兄皇子と前任の左右両大臣は、晩年において路線対立があり前任の右大臣蘇我石川麻呂は謀反の疑いで自殺に追い込まれている。
The former ministers of the left and right, in their later years, had a conflict with Imperial Prince Naka no oe (later the Emperor Tenchi) over their policies, whose conflict drove SOGA no Ishikawamaro, former Minister of the Right, into committing suicide for an alleged conspiracy of rebellion.

ところが、計画を知らない忠継が毒饅頭を食べて死んでしまい、さらに悲観した督姫も毒をあおって後追い自殺した、との巷説がある。
There is a rumor that Tadatsugu ate the poisoned manju and died without knowing the attempt and Tokuhime killed herself in grief.

戦争での活躍は伝えられないが、大友皇子が敗走して7月23日に自殺するまで、物部連麻呂は一、二の舎人とともに最後までつき従った。
Although it is uncertain how much of a role he took during this war, MONONOBE no Muraji Maro and two other servants stayed with Prince Otomo until August 24, the day he committed suicide due to his loss in the battle.

1918年11月5日、スペインかぜで島村が病死すると、2ヶ月後の1919年1月5日、芸術座の道具部屋において自殺（縊死）した。
Two months after Shimamura died of the Spanish Flu on November 5, 1918, she committed suicide (by hanging) in an equipment room on January 5, 1919.

皇極天皇4年・大化元年（645年）天智天皇と藤原鎌足により蘇我入鹿が暗殺され、父の蝦夷は自殺して蘇我氏は滅亡した（乙巳の変）。
In 645, the first year of the era of Taika, SOGA no Iruka was assassinated by Emperor Tenchi and FUJIWARA no Kamatari; Iruka's father, Emishi, committed suicide and the Soga clan was destroyed (this incident is known as 'Isshi no hen' or otherwise known as 'The Murder in the Year of Isshi').

しかし、天然痘により天平9年（737年）4人とも死没してしまったが、これは王を自殺に追い込んだ祟りではないかと噂されたらしい。
The four brothers died of smallpox in 737 and there was a rumor that it was a punishment for driving the prince to suicide.

ハイドは絞首刑の恐怖につねにかりたてられ、発作的に自殺しようとして、一人の人間ではなく、従属的な立場にいることに立ち返るのだ。
His tenor of the gallows drove him continually to commit temporary suicide, and return to his subordinate station of a part instead of a person;

重大な危機的状況（鬱状態の出現や自殺未遂や薬物の乱用）に焦点を絞ってその人を危機以前の活動レベルに戻すことを目的とした心理療法
psychotherapy that focuses on acute critical situations (depressive episodes or attempted suicides or drug overdoses) with the aim of restoring the person to the level of functioning before the crisis

伝統的な症状（快感消失、無気力、睡眠障害、意気消沈、抑鬱思考、自己否定、時に自殺未遂）を示し、器質的機能不全の見られない抑鬱状態
a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction

信頼は源義朝を配下につけて、信西を自殺へ追い込むことに成功したが、二条親政派の裏切りと清盛の反撃に遭い、あえなく敗北し処刑された。
Nobuyori gained MINAMOTO no Yoshitomo as a follower and succeeded in forcing Shinzei to commit suicide, but was himself defeated and executed when he was betrayed by the Nijo Shinsei group and counterattacked by Kiyomori.

ところが、文安3年（1446年）に清方は急死（自殺とも）し、憲実は隠遁生活からの復帰を承諾しなかったために関東管領は空位となった。
However, Kiyokata died suddenly in 1446 (some said that he committed suicide), and as Norizane refused to return from his cloistered life, nobody succeeded to the position of Kanto Kanrei.

石川麻呂は、蘇我馬子の孫、蘇我倉麻呂の子で、大化5年（649年）に異母弟の蘇我日向（ひむか）に讒訴され、造営半ばの山田寺で自殺した。
Ishikawakamaro, a grandchild of SOGA no Umako and a child of SOGA no Kuramaro, was falsely charged by his younger paternal half-brother SOGA no Himuka, and killed himself at Yamada-dera Temple.

人を教唆し若しくは幇助して自殺させ、又は人をその嘱託を受け若しくはその承諾を得て殺した者は、六月以上七年以下の懲役又は禁錮に処する。
A person who induces or aids another to commit suicide, or kills another at the other's request or with other's consent, shall be punished by imprisonment with or without work for not less than 6 months but not more than 7 years.

しかし、幕府もこの風聞を信じて近隣の諸藩に出兵を命じたため、同年8月20日、紀通は福知山城にて鉄砲自殺して果て、稲葉氏は改易となった。
The shogunate, however, took the rumor seriously, and ordered several neighboring domains to send troops, with the result that Norimichi committed shot himself dead in the Fukuchiyama-jo Castle on August 20, 1648, and the Inaba clan was punished by Kaieki (removal of samurai status and expropriation of territories).

1542年に謀反した津野基高を討ち、1546年に津野氏を降伏させるなど一条氏の勢威を拡大したが、1549年、突如として自殺してしまった。
Fusamoto extended the Ichijo clan's power base by putting down Mototaka TSUNO who rose in rebellion in 1542 and the subsequent surrender by the Tsuno clan in 1546 but suddenly committed suicide in 1549.

その2年後、兄の市川團十郎 (8代目)が大坂で自殺、この頃から次弟の権十郎がゆくゆくは「市川團十郎」を襲名することが期待されるようになる。
Two years later, his older brother, Danjuro ICHIKAWA (the eighth) killed himself in Osaka, therefore he came to be expected to succeed to the name of 'Danjuro ICHIKAWA' in future.

戦国時代 (日本)が始まる1498年には守護の一色義秀が地元豪族に攻められて自殺していることから、強力な施政はできなかったようにも思われる。
Based on the fact that the Shugo Yoshihide ISSHIKI was assaulted and driven to suicide by a powerful local family in 1498 around the onset of the Sengoku (Warring States) period, apparently the Isshiki clan did not have strong control over the province.

獄吏は目をさまし、獄の戸が開いてしまっているのを見て、囚人たちが逃げ出したものと思い、つるぎを抜いて自殺しかけた。 (使徒行伝 16:27)
The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. (Acts 16:27)

この事件で藤原吉子・伊予親王母子は川原寺に幽閉され自殺、大納言藤原雄友は流刑、中納言藤原乙叡は解官され、藤原南家は没落した（伊予親王の変）。
Due to this, FUJIWARA no Yoshiko and her son Imperial Prince Iyo were confined within Kawara-dera Temple before committing suicide; FUJIWARA no Otomo, who had the title of Dainagon (chief councilor of state), was exiled, Chunagon (vice-councilor of state) FUJIWARA no Takatoshi was stripped of his rank, and the Southern House of the Fujiwara clan perished (Conspiracy of Iyo Imperial Prince).

投身自殺による死亡例は多数発生しており、またドアに乗客の手を挟んで引き摺り死亡させたケース（1995年、三島駅乗客転落事故を参照）はあった。
Many suicides by jumping on railway tracks occurred, and a person was caught by a train-car door, dragged and killed (refer to the passenger-falling-down accident at Mishima Station in 1995).

光秀が山崎の戦いで豊臣秀吉に敗れると、秀満は安土城を放棄して有名な「湖水渡り」を行なって近江坂本城にいる光秀の妻子を刺し殺して自分も自殺した。
However, when Mitsuhide was defeated by Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI in the Battle of Yamazaki, Hidemitsu, who abandoned the Azuchi-jo Castle, and carried out the famous 'Kosui-watari' (rapid crossing of Lake Biwa), stabbed Mitsuhide's wife and children in the Sakamoto-jo Castle in Omi, and ultimately, killed himself.

その際、相馬自身がマツに「他言無用」と厳命し、マツが生涯その命を守り通したため、自殺の詳細や動機、また菩提寺については現在に至るまで不明である。
With his last breath, Soma himself strictly ordered Matsu 'not to breath a word of it,' and since Matsu kept his order until she died, the details and motive as well as the temple where he was buried are unknown to date.

いったんは九州大宰府へ逃れるが在地の武士の緒方惟義に追われ、平家一門は苦しい船上での流浪を余儀なくされ、絶望した甥の平清経が入水自殺してしまう。
Once they escaped to Dazaifu in Kyushu, however they were refused permission to remain there by the local Samurai, Koreyoshi OGATA, after that, the Taira clan were forced to undergo a difficult life roaming the sea on a ship, TAIRA no Kiyotsune, who was a nephew of Tokuko, was devastated and drown himself.

君は、強盗や人殺しでさえも、彼の兄弟の首に縄がかかったと云うことを知って、自殺する気になるほどな肉親の愛情を起こすものであることが、分かったろう。
You see that even a villain and murderer can inspire such affection that his brother turns to suicide when he learns that his neck is forfeited.

蘇我氏は、645年の天智天皇、藤原鎌足らのクーデター（乙巳の変）によって、入鹿が暗殺されるとともに蝦夷が自殺するとその勢力は大幅にそがれてしまった。
The power of the Soga clan was significantly diminished by a coup (Isshi Incident, which takes its name from the Zodiacal name of the year the incident occurred and can alternatively called the 'Incident of 645.') led by Emperor Tenchi in 645, in which Iruka was assassinated and Emishi prompted to commit suicide.

729年（神亀6年）、左大臣にのぼった長屋王に対し藤原四兄弟は「左道によって国政を傾ける」と讒訴して、自殺に追いこみ（長屋王の変）、政権を手にした。
In 729, the four brothers of Fujiwara slandered Nagayao, who had been promoted to sadaijin (minister of the left) as 'endangering the nation with the ways of the left' and forced him to commit suicide (an event known as Nagayao no Hen), grasping the reins of government.

なかには水を混ぜていないのに、客から「金魚酒にしただろう」と難癖をつけられ、「していない」と身の潔白を示すために抗議の自殺をした酒屋までも出現した。
Even the following incident occurred: A sakaya owner who was accused by a customer of 'serving goldfish sake' killed himself for clarifying that the owner served no goldfish sake to the customer.

また義経の性急な壇ノ浦での攻撃で、安徳天皇や平時子を自殺に追い込み、朝廷との取引材料と成り得た宝剣を紛失した事は頼朝の戦後構想を破壊するものであった。
Yoshitsune's precipitous attack at Dannoura lead Emperor Antoku and TAIRA no Tokiko to commit suicide and the disappearance of Hoken (treasured sword), which could have been a good instrument to use for negotiating with the Imperial court, and as a result, destroyed the post-war initiative that Yoritomo had conceived.

特に長英は投獄後に脱獄し、逃亡の果てに捕り方によって殺害され、三英は逮捕をおそれて自殺、崋山は禁固（蟄居）後に自ら切腹するという悲劇的な最期を遂げる。
Especially, Choei broke out of prison after he was imprisoned and then was killed after escaping by the capturers, Sanei committed suicide for fear of being arrested, and Kazan met his tragic end by committing suicide by disembowelment after he was sentenced to imprisonment (being confined to his house).

自殺説（姫川（乙部町）への投身、由比ヶ浜への入水など）や旅先での客死説（逃亡した義経を追ったもののうら若き身ひとつでの移動の無理がたたったというもの。
There are many legends that include the suicide theory (she threw herself into the Himekawa River, Otobe Town, or into the sea off Yuigahama beach) or death away from home (although she followed Yoshitsune who fled northward, she was still young, alone, and could not stand the hardship of travelling and died; there are various theories about the place of her death).

原告の名前が活字になったとき、彼女は数多くの死の恐怖にさらされ、芸者社会を侮辱したことに対して自殺を迫られたが、彼女はゴールデンを訴えることを選択した。
Once the plaintiff's name was published, she received many death threats, and faced pressure to commit suicide for insulting the geisha community; but she decided to sue Golden.

これは病死とも、秀吉への恩義に応えられなかった（且元は、家康の大坂攻めに協力する見返りとして、秀頼の助命を嘆願していたらしい）ことを悔いての自殺説もある。
While some attribute his death to illness, others believe it was suicide for failing to live up to his pledge of loyalty to Hideyoshi (for pleading for the life of Hideyori in return for his support of Ieyasu's siege on Osaka Castle).

1114年（永久2年）3月に仁寛が城山（じょうやま）から投身自殺を遂げたのちは、見蓮らが陰陽道と真言密教の教義を混合して立川流を確立し、布教したとされている。
It is believed that after Ninkan committed suicide by throwing himself from Mt. Jo in April, 1114, Kenren and others established the Tachikawa-ryu school by mixing the yin yang philosophy and the creed of Shingon Esoteric Buddhism and propagated it.

壇ノ浦の戦いで一門が源氏軍に最終的な敗北を喫した際、外孫に当たる安徳天皇を抱き、「浪の下にも都の候ぞ」（『平家物語』）と言い聞かせ、海中に身を投じて自殺した。
When the Taira clan was finally defeated by the Minamoto army in the Battle of Dannoura, she threw herself into the sea holding Emperor Antoku, her maternal grandson, in her arms, telling him that there was a paradise under the sea ('Heike Monogatari' (The Tale of Heike)).

公知の暗殺犯は現場に残されていた刀などの物証から幕末四大人斬りの一人、薩摩藩の田中新兵衛と目され田中が捕らえられたが、取り調べ中に田中が自殺したため、真相は不明。
The author of Kintomo's assassination was suspected to be Shinbei TANAKA of Satsuma Domain, one of the Bakumatsu Shidai Hitokiri (Four famous assassins of the end of the Edo period), from the material evidence such as the sword left at the scene, and Tanaka was arrested, however, the truth remained unrevealed because he committed suicide during the interrogation.

その翌日、三成が実力行使に出て兵に屋敷を囲ませると、ガラシャは家老の小笠原秀清（少斎）に槍で部屋の外から胸を貫かせて死んだ（キリスト教では自殺は大罪であるため）。
The next day, when Mitsunari resorted to force by having soldiers surround the residence, Garasha got the chief retainer, Hidekiyo (Shosai) OGASAWARA, to pierce her chest with lance from outside the room (this is because in Christianity, committing suicide is a mortal sin).

ある日、夫の財布からなくなった50円が義親配偶者の親の使っていた仏壇の引き出しにあると言い当てたことで、姑は疑いをかけられたことを苦にして自殺未遂を起こしてしまう。
One day, she guessed right that the 50 yen disappeared from her husband's wallet was in the Buddhist alter that her parents-in-law were using, which caused her mother-in-law to attempt suicide.

645年（皇極4年）の乙巳の変で、天智天皇・中臣鎌子（藤原鎌足）らが宮中（板蓋宮）で蘇我入鹿を暗殺し、蘇我蝦夷を自殺に追いやり、半世紀も続いた蘇我氏の体制を滅ぼした。
In 645, Prince Naka no Oe (later, Emperor Tenji) and Kamako NAKATOMI (later, Kamatari FUJIWARA) assassinated Iruka SOGA at the Imperial Court, drove Emishi SOGA to suicide and annihilated the Soga clan, in what is known as the The Isshi Incident, or Incident of 645.

蘇我蝦夷（そがのえみし）は、飛鳥時代に大臣（おおおみ）となり中大兄皇子（後の天智天皇）・藤原鎌足・蘇我倉山田石川麻呂らのいわゆる乙巳の変で自殺した政治家、貴族。
SOGA no Emishi was an aristocrat and highest officer politician in the Asuka period, who committed suicide in the so-called Isshi no hen (the Murder in the Year of Isshi) led by Prince Naka no Oe no Oji (later the Emperor Tenchi), FUJIWARA no Kamatari, SOGANOKURA-YAMADA no Ishikawamaro, and others.

太子の薨去後、太子の王子山背大兄王が住んだが、皇極天皇2年（643年）に蘇我入鹿の兵によって宮は焼き払われ、山背大兄王以下、上宮王家の人々は法隆寺で自殺に追い込まれた。
After the death of Prince Shotoku, his prince, Prince Yamashiro no oe lived in the palace, however, the palace was burnt away by SOGA no Iruka's soldiers in 643, and Prince Yamashiro no oe and other people in Jogu Oke (Prince Shotoku's family) were forced to kill themselves in Horyu-ji Temple.

そこでユダヤ人たちは言った、「わたしの行く所に、あなたがたは来ることができないと、言ったのは、あるいは自殺でもしようとするつもりか」。 (ヨハネによる福音書 8:22)
The Jews therefore said, 'Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?'' (John 8:22)

神示にはその後の日本の敗戦を明らかに書記されている部分があり、希望を失っていた軍人の中でも、前もってそれを知っていた為に終戦時に自殺を思いとどまった者も多く居たという。
Because Japan's future defeat was written clearly the revelation, it helped prevent many hopeless soldiers from committing suicide.

自殺の前日、次男の近衛通隆に遺書を口述筆記させ、「自分は多くの過ちを犯してきたが、戦犯として裁かれなければならないことに耐えられない…僕の志は知る人ぞ知る」と言い残した。
On the day before his suicide, he dictated his will to his second son, Michitaka KONOE, and left the following words: 'I have made many mistakes, but I cannot stand being tried as a war criminal… only those people who understand, know my intentions.'

息子である徳松（母は竹の局）は放免の際に同行が許されず、更には岩槻藩主阿部重次の預かりとなったもののそこで冷遇され、寛永9年（1632年）に住居に火をつけて自殺している。
His son Tokumatsu (whose mother was Take no Tsubone) wasn't allowed to go together with his father when he was pardoned, and although he was taken into custody by Shigetsugu ABE who was the lord of the Iwatsuki Domain, he was treated poorly there and killed himself by setting fire to his dwelling.

645年、中大兄皇子・石川麻呂らと協力して飛鳥板蓋宮（あすかのいたぶきのみや）にて、当時政権を握っていた蘇我入鹿を暗殺、入鹿の父の蘇我蝦夷を自殺に追いやった（乙巳の変）。
In 645, he conspired with Naka no Oe no Oji and Ishikawamaro and assassinated SOGA no Iruka, who was in power at that time, at Asuka no Itabuki no Miya Palace; Iruka's father, SOGA no Emishi, was driven to commit suicide (Isshi Incident).

建保2年（1214年）、京都滞在時に和田氏の残党に擁立されて六波羅を襲撃しようとしたが計画が幕府方に露見し、同年12月13日、一条北辺の旅亭で幕府方の襲撃を受けて自殺した。
In 1214, backed up by the remnants (of a defeated party) of the Wada clan when he stayed in Kyoto, he tried to attack the Rokuhara government, however, the plot was discovered by the bakufu side and on January 21, 1215, when he was attacked by them in an inn around north of Ichijo, he committed suicide.

皇極天皇4年（645年）に天皇の御前で入鹿が殺されると、一時は蝦夷のもとに与する者が集まったが、翌日、入鹿の屍を前に蝦夷は邸宅に火をかけ「天皇記」・「国記」もろとも自殺した。
In 645, when Iruka was killed in the emperor's presence, the Soga supporters gathers at Emishi's place, but the next day, he committed suicide by setting fire to his residence in the face of Iruka's corpse and Tennoki (a Record of the Emperors) and Kokki (National Record) were destroyed as well.

これには病死説もあれば、秀頼を救うことができなかった（且元は、大坂の陣で家康に味方する代償として、秀頼の助命を嘆願していたらしい）ことからの責任を感じて、自殺したとも言われている。
Some stated that he died of a disease, but it is also said that he committed suicide to take responsibilty for his inability to save Hideyori (it seems he pleaded for Hideyori's life in return for siding with Ieyasu during the Siege of Osaka).

しかしピストル自殺説（小笠原孤酒及び彼に取材した新田次郎が採っている）もあることや「凍傷の指で銃の操作は不可能」として新たな背景を探る松木明知の研究もあり、更なる検証・進展が望まれる。
However, further verification is required as there are a theory of his having committed suicide with a gun (Koshu OGASAWARA and Jiro NITTA, who interviewed him, put forward this theory) and another theory, by Akitomo MATSUKI, that needs more background says, 'It was impossible for his frozen fingers to manipulate a gun.'

本能寺の変（ほんのうじのへん）は、天正10年6月2日 (旧暦)（1582年6月21日）、織田信長の重臣明智光秀が謀反を起こし、京都・本能寺に宿泊していた主君信長を襲い、自殺させた事件。
Honnoji Incident is about an event on June 21, 1582 whereby Mitsuhide AKECHI, a key vassal of Nobunaga ODA, rose in revolt and attacked his master, Nobunaga, who had been staying in Honno-ji Temple in Kyoto and Nobunaga committed suicide.

また、天皇が謝罪したにも関わらずニコライが帰国すると、5月20日には、死を以って詫びるとし京都府庁の前で剃刀で喉を突いて自殺し後に「房州の烈女」と呼ばれた畠山勇子のような女性も出現した。
After Nicholas went back to Russia in spite of Emperor Meiji's apology, on May 20, a woman named Yuko HATAKEYAMA slit her throat with a razor in front of the Kyoto Prefectural Office to express contrition by her death, and after she died she was called 'retsujo (valiant woman) in Bosyu'.

伝統的な宗派に属する寺院でも、不登校の問題や自殺防止などに取り組んだり、宗教家の立場で人々の相談に乗ったるする寺院など、人々の心の問題に取り組もうとする動きが伝統的な仏教界にも見られている。
Today the Buddhist circles, which had been keeping a lot of traditions, is trying to assist people in solving problems of minds; for example, some temple of traditional sects are involved in the prevention of school truancy and suicide, and some priests guide people as persons of religion.

平成11年（1999年）には広島県立世羅高等学校で卒業式当日に校長が自殺し、君が代斉唱や日章旗掲揚の文部省通達とそれに反対する日教組教職員との板挟みになっていたことが原因ではないかと言われた。
In 1999, the principal of Hiroshima Prefectural SERA Senior High School committed suicide on the day of the commencement ceremony and it was rumored that the cause of this suicide was the fact that he had been caught in the middle of the instruction by the Ministry of Education chorus reading Kimigayo and raising the Japanese (rising sun) flag and opposing teachers who belonged to Nikkyoso.

事件発生後総督府は原住民への討伐を決定、軍隊出動による討伐作戦を2ヶ月にわたって展開し、対立部族の協力も得た鎮圧作戦の結果700人ほどの抗日サイディック族が死亡もしくは自殺、500人ほどが投降した。
The Sotoku-fu decided to retaliate against the tribe after the Incident and developed a subjugation campaign using the military force in cooperation with the rival tribes for two months, as a result of which military campaign 700 Seediq were killed in fighting or committed suicides and 500 people surrendered.

現在駅東側は山を切り崩した住宅街になっているが、京阪電気鉄道の開発が入るまでは完全な山であり、石清水八幡宮の西側まで延々と獣道が続いていたが、麓の遊郭での諍いから遊女の自殺が絶えない地域でもあった。
Currently, the area on the east side of the station is a residential district that has been created by leveling off a mountain, but it was part of a natural mountain environment with animal trails running all the way to the west of Iwashimizu-hachiman-gu Shrine, before it was developed by the Keihan Electric Railway; it was also known for having an area at the foot of the mountain where prostitutes would commit suicide as the result of quarrels in the red-light district.

応神天皇の崩御の後、最も有力と目されていた皇位継承者の菟道稚郎子（うじのわきいらつこ）皇子と互いに皇位を譲り合ったが、皇子の死（『日本書紀』は仁徳天皇に皇位を譲るために自殺したと伝える）により即位したという。
After the demise of Emperor Ojin, he and Prince Iratsuko Ujinowaki, who was regarded as the most likely successor to the Imperial Throne, tried to give the throne over to each other but, because of death of the Prince (according to 'Nihonshoki,' the Prince killed himself in order to give the throne to Emperor Nintoku), he acceded to the throne.

畠山勇子（はたけやまゆうこ、慶応元年（1865年）12月 - 明治24年（1891年）5月20日）は、1891年の大津事件で日露関係が緊張した際、被害者のロシア皇太子に謝罪の遺書を残して自殺した女性である。
Yuko HATAKEYAMA (December, 1865 - May 20, 1891) was a woman who committed suicide during the period the relationship between Japan and Russia became tense, leaving a suicide note to apologize to the crown prince of Russia who had been attacked by a Japanese in the Otsu Incident of 1891.

大正2年、劇団「芸術座 (劇団)」を旗揚げした島村抱月と松井須磨子の、数年後の病死～後追い自殺（同7～8年）にいたる関係においては、劇団や演目への好評が大きいだけに政治的圧力や短い期間での破綻が大衆の好奇を刺激した。
In 1913 Hougetsu SHIMAMURA and Sumako MATSUI set up together a theatrical company 'Geijutsuza,' but their relationship, which led to the death of Hogetsu from disease after several years (in 1918) and the follow-up suicide of Sumako in the end (in 1919), stirred the masses to be inquisitive about the political oppression against them and the fact that the relationship was ruined in a short period of time, especially because the theatrical company and their performances were highly praised.

長男源義弘・次男源義俊は谷に身を投げて投身自殺し、三男源義明は義忠殺害の張本人とされて追っ手に追われて戦死、四男源義仲 (曖昧さ回避)は火に飛び込んで焼身自殺、五男源義範は切腹、六男源義公は自害、という様相であった。
Yoshitsuna's oldest son MINAMOTO no Yoshihiro and second son MINAMOTO no Yoshitoshi committed suicide by throwing themselves into a valley, his third son MINAMOTO no Yoshiaki was named the ringleader in the death of Yoshitada and died in battle while being hunted down, his fourth son MINAMOTO no Yoshinaka jumped into a fire and was burned to death, his fifth son MINAMOTO no Yoshinori did seppuku (committed suicide by disembowelment), and his sixth son MINAMOTO no Giko (源義公) committed suicide.

1600年、関ヶ原の戦いが起こったときは、細川氏の大阪屋敷にいて、忠興の妻である細川ガラシャの警護をしていたが、ガラシャが石田三成の人質作戦に巻き込まれて自殺すると、自身は砲術の弟子に助けられて屋敷から逃亡したという。
In 1600, when the battle of Sekigahara broke out, Sukenao was at the Osaka mansion of the Hosokawa clan, serving as the bodyguard to Gracia HOSOKAWA, Tadaoki's wife; when Gracia became embroiled in Mitsunari ISHIDA's hostage strategy and committed suicide, it is said that Sukenao was aided by his gunnery pupils and managed to flee the mansion.

また、雄略天皇の皇女で、斎宮である栲幡姫皇女（稚足姫皇女）が、湯人（ゆえ：皇子女の沐浴等に仕える役職）の盧城部連武彦の子供を妊娠したと、阿閇氏国見に讒言され、無実を晴らすため自殺した事件が雄略天皇紀3年4月条に載っている。
According to the April A.D. 459 part of the History of Emperor Yuryaku, Takuhatahime no Himemiko (also called Wakatarashihime no Himemiko; a daughter of the Emperor Yuryaku; Saigu (Imperial Princess appointed to serve the deities of the Ise-jingu Shrine)) got slandered by Ahe no omi, saying that she got pregnant by a yue (a bathing servant to princes and princesses), Iokibe no Muraji Takehiko, and she killed herself to prove her innocence.

山路愛山（彌吉）は回想録『命耶罪耶』の中で子供の頃（静岡時代）に彰常より、これからは「商人の道」を学ぶように諭された時に武士の子としての誇りから「卑しむべき商人たらんよりは寧ろ自殺するこそよけれ」と叫んだことを記している。
Aizan (Yakichi) YAMAJI wrote the following story in his commentaries entitled 'Meikatsumika': when Akitsune tried to convince Aizan in his childhood (in Shizuoka) that he should learn 'the way of merchant' from that time on, Aizan spoke out proudly as a son of samurai family that he would rather kill himself than become a humble merchant.

この戦いに敗れた師冬は、1350年末に鎌倉から没落して甲斐国須沢城（山梨県南アルプス市白根町）に逃れたが、そこもやがて諏訪氏の軍勢に包囲されることとなり、翌年1月17日、逃げ切れないことを悟った師冬は自殺して果てたのであった。
Although Morofuyu left Kamakura and escaped into Susawa-jo Castle of Kai Prefecture (present-day Minami-Alps City, Yamanashi Prefecture) at the end of 1350 after the setback in the conflict, he was soon besieged by the force of the Suwa clan, giving up running away, and killed himself on February 21, 1351.

文禄4年7月、秀次は罪を得て関白の職を剥がれて高野山に放たれ、7月15日、切腹を命じられ、山本主殿、山田三十郎、不破伴作など5人もまた自殺し、秀次の首は伏見で秀吉の首実検に供され、三条河原で梟首（キュウシュ。さらし首）された。
In the 7th month of 1595, Hidetsugu was convicted of a crime, stripped of his position of Kanpaku (regent to the Emperor), and ordered to commit seppuku at Mt. Koya on the 15th day of the 7th month, which was followed by the suicide of five others including Tonomo YAMAMOTO, Sanjuro YAMADA and Bansaku FUWA, and the presentation of Hidetsugu's head to Hideyoshi for inspection in Fushimi before it was put on public display beside the Sanjo-gawa River.

ハイドのことを考えるだけでむかむかして寒気がする私だが、その卑劣さと生への執着の情熱を振りかえり、自殺でハイドとの関係を断ち切ろうとする私の力をどれほど恐れているかを知ったときは、心の底から彼に対する哀れみの念を禁じえなかった。
I, who sicken and freeze at the mere thought of him, when I recall the abjection and passion of this attachment, and when I know how he fears my power to cut him off by suicide, I find it in my heart to pity him.

またバス部門においても、1985年10月に2階建て観光バスが、中央自動車道においてガードレールを突き破り県道に転落する事故を起こし、乗客3名死亡、57名が重傷、運転していた乗務員は、その場で自殺するという痛ましい事故を起こしている。
Also, the bus division suffered a deadly accident in October 1985, in which a two-level sightseeing bus broke through the guardrail of the Chuo Jidosha-do Expressway and tumbled onto the prefectural road, killing three passengers and injuring 57 more; the driver killed himself at the scene.

松井須磨子後追い自殺、「民本主義」創刊、「カルピス」発売開始、「帝国美術院」が発足し「帝国美術院展覧会（現在の日本美術展覧会）」開催、「キネマ旬報」創刊、「道路法」（道路・街路構造令、自動車取締令）発令、「建築基準法」「都市計画法」公布
The follow-up suicide by Sumako MATSUI, the first publication of 'Minponshugi' (democracy), the start of sales of CALPIS, inauguration of the 'Imperial Art Academy' and holding of 'Exhibition of the Imperial Fine Arts Academy' (present The Japan Fine Arts Exhibition), the first publication of 'Kinema Junpo,' accouchement of the 'Road Act' (the act of road and street structures and the regulation law of automobiles), and promulgation of 'Building Standard Law' and 'City Planning Act'

捕縛された際に自殺し損なった尊長は、「早く首を切れ。さもなければ義時の妻が義時に飲ませた薬で早く自分を殺せ」と叫び、その3年前における前執権北条義時の死去がその室伊賀の方による毒殺であったことを示唆したとされる（藤原定家の日記の記述による）。
It is said that when Soncho was captured and failed to commit suicide, he shouted, 'Cut my head off now! Or, kill me with the poison that Yoshitoki's wife used!,' suggesting that Yoshitoki HOJO, then regent to the shognate, who had died three years before, was killed with poison by Iga no kata, the wife of Yoshitoki (based on the episode described in a diary of Teika FUJIWARA).

さらに、試衛館で手伝いをしていた女性（気が強い男勝りな性格だったようだ）に「結婚してくれ」と告白され、「修行中の身ですので」と断ったという逸話も残っている（その女性は断られたショックでか自殺未遂を起こし、その後近藤の口利きにより他家に嫁いだようだ）。
There is an old anecdote that a woman (who was apparently a strong-willed and spirited person) working in the Shieikan dojo asked Okita to marry her but he turned down her proposal, saying 'I am still an apprentice' (the woman attempted suicide, possibly because of his rejection, and later married another man after being introduced by Kondo).

貸金業者は、貸付けの契約（住宅資金貸付契約その他の内閣府令で定める契約を除く。）の相手方又は相手方となろうとする者の死亡によつて保険金の支払を受けることとなる保険契約を締結しようとする場合には、当該保険契約において、自殺による死亡を保険事故としてはならない。
A Money Lender shall, when he/she intends to conclude an insurance contract under which he/she is to receive payment of insurance claims upon the death of the counterparty or the person who intends to be the counterparty to the Contract for a Loan (excluding Home Loan Contracts and other contracts specified by a Cabinet Office Ordinance), not make death resulting from suicide an insured event in said insurance contract.

十二御前と云ふ所は、天正十三乙酉年三月十五日(二十五日の誤り)、薄葉ヶ原合戦の際、山田城主山田筑後守辰業の正室(菊の前)侍女と、此所迄逃落て進退谷(きわ)まりし故に、断崖絶壁の頂上より、主従十二人手に手を握合ふて、身を跳躍して、箒川の深渕に投身自殺を行ふた戦争秘話の遺跡なり・・・
The place called Juni Gozen is the site of the Battle of Usubagahara where Kikunomae, the lawful wife of Chikugo no kami Tokinari YAMADA, the lord of Yamada-jo Castle, and her lady attendants escaped from the pursuers and got stuck at the bluff and leaped hand in hand into the depth of Hoki-gawa River on the 15th day (error for 25th) of the 3rd month of the 13th year of the Tensho era (corresponds to April 24, 1585).

1524年、弟の長祗が相良長定に攻められて翌年に自殺すると、1526年に僧兵をかき集めて長定を破り、還俗して太郎長隆と名乗って相良氏の家督を継ごうとしたが、僧上がりの長隆に対して相良一族や家臣団は従おうとせず、長隆は正式に家督を継ぐこともできず、人吉城から逃亡し、永里城に入った。
When Nagataka SAGARA's younger brother, Nagamasa was attacked by Nagasada SAGARA in 1524 and Nagamasa killed himself the next year, Nagataka gathered up monk soldiers and, with them, beat down Nagasada in 1526, after which he returned to the secular life naming himself Taro-Nagataka and tried to succeed to the headship of the Sagara family, however, the whole Sagara family and their vassal groups would not obey Nagataka who had been a priest, and Nagataka could not formally succeed to the headship of the family, thus he ran away from Hitoyoshi-jo Castle, and went to Nagasato-jo Castle.

しかし上記のように反抗的な態度を取り続けたことと、同年に島津氏の家臣・梅北国兼が秀吉に対して反乱（梅北一揆）を起こしたとき、その反乱軍に歳久の家臣が多く参加したことなどから秀吉の怒りを買うことになり、兄・義久の追討を受けて自殺しようとしたが、追手が立ちはだかっていたため、竜ヶ水に上陸した。
However, because he continued to be rebellious against Hideyoshi and also because many of his vassals participated in the uprising against Hideyoshi (Unekita-ikki) started by a vassal of the Shimazu clan, Kunikane UMEKITA, Hideyoshi became angry with Toshihisa, and this led Toshihisa to attempt suicide, however, he landed in Ryugamizu as the army of his older brother, Yoshihisa, came surrounding him.

著名なものとしては、1945年（昭和20年）8月25日に、東京都内の代々木公園で、「大東塾十四士」が古式に則り集団割腹自殺をした事件や、1970年（昭和45年）11月25日に、作家の三島由紀夫が、陸上自衛隊市ヶ谷駐屯地内で、演説を行ったのち割腹自殺した事件（三島由紀夫三島事件）などがある。
Well known examples include the group seppuku of Daitojuku juyonshi (14 members of Great Eastern School) committed in accordance with tradition in Yoyogi Park, Tokyo on August 25, 1945 and the seppuku of author Yukio MISHIMA on November 25, 1970 committed following a speech given at the Ichigaya Camp of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.

土方から依頼されて新撰組の誠の旗をつくった染物屋の女主人を手ごめにし（女主人は恥じて自殺してしまう）、さらに罪のない職人の親方を斬り捨て、その弟子の職人たちと乱闘（大坂力士乱闘事件の改変）、あげくに親方の妹のお梅をまたも手ごめにする（お梅は発狂）など悪行をくりかえし、最後は土方と沖田たちに成敗される。
SERIZAWA raped the female owner of the dyer who prepared the Shinsen-gumi's banner of loyalty (the owner was so ashamed that she killed herself), also slashed the master craftsman who was innocent, then scuffled with the craftsmen who were apprentices under the master (modified version of the scuffle with sumo wrestlers in Osaka), furthermore, raped Oume who was the sister of the master (Oume became insane), and continued other vicious deeds; he was eventually slashed as a punishment by HIJIKATA, OKITA and others.

上記の一色・土岐を暗殺した事や、比叡山の宗徒を殺しまたは焼身自殺させた事の他、権中納言・日野義資を暗殺したと思しき事、皇族・公卿ら数十人を処罰した事、「献上された梅の枝が折れた」「料理がまずい」といった些細な理由で庭師や料理人を罰した事などが『満済准后日記』『看聞日記』『薩戒記』など当時の記録にみえる。
Records made at that time, such as the 'Mansai Junko Diary,' 'Kanmon Diary,' and 'Sakkai-Ki' mention that, as well as the assassinations of Isshiki and Toki and the killing and forced self-immolation of monks at Hieizan Enryaku-ji Temple described above, he also supposedly assassinated Gon Chunagon (Provisional Middle Counselor) Yoshisuke HINO, punished dozens of members of the Imperial Family and court aristocracy, and punished gardeners and cooks for trivial reasons, such as 'a branch of the plum tree received as a gift broke' and 'the food did not taste good.'

しかし、この書物には側室の桂岩院の出自を遊女とし、直江兼続が世継ぎを生ませる為、この遊女を男装させて景勝に引き合わせて定勝を生ませたが、この女は自分が女だと景勝に知られて怒りを買い、その寵愛を失ったことを悲観して自殺したとし、それを恨みとした定勝が兼続を自らの手で殺害するという明らかに史実と異なる記述や考証がされており、信憑性には問題がある。
However, the credibility of this book is problematic because it contains statements and documentation obviously inconsistent with historical facts; some of these inconsistencies follow: Keigannin, Kagekatsu's concubine, was a descendent of a prostitute; Kanetsugu NAOE forced this prostitute to disguise herself as a man and introduced her to Kagekatsu so that she would bear an heir to Kagekatsu; she bore Sadakatsu, but she incurred Kagekatsu's anger because he found out that she was a woman; this woman was disappointed by the loss of Kagekatsu's favor and killed herself; her suicide caused Sadakatsu to harbor ill will against Kanetsugu, and he killed Kanetsugu in person.

1382年（永徳2年）4月11日に息子の後小松天皇に譲位して、上皇として院政を開始するが、義満が朝廷の事務に積極的に介入したため実権は無く、翌年には出産を終えて宮中へ戻った妃の厳子を殴打する事件や、愛妾の按察局が義満との密通を疑われて出家する事件、義満が上皇を配流するという噂が流れると、持仏堂に篭って自殺未遂を起こすなどの騒動を起こしている。
In 1382 on April 11 he passed the throne to his son, Emperor Gokomatsu and started ruling the cloistered government, however, he did not have control of politics since Yoshimitsu was actively involved in the Imperial Palace's business, the following year incidents happened where he beat the Empress Takako after she returned to the Imperial Palace after giving birth to her child, or his favorite mistress, Azechi no Tsubone became a nun after an affair with Yoshimitsu became apparent, and rumors were spreading that Yoshimitsu tried to sentence the retired Emperor to deportation and so on, he attempted to commit suicide inside the Jibutsu-do.

神亀6年（729年）2月、漆部造君足（ぬりべのみやつこきみたり）と中臣宮処東人（なかとみのみやこのむらじあずまひと）が「長屋王は密かに左道を学びて国家を傾けんと欲す。」と密告があり、それをうけて藤原宇合（ふじわらのうまかい）らの率いる六衛府の軍勢が長屋王の邸宅を包囲し、舎人親王などによる糾問の結果、長屋王はその妃吉備内親王と子の膳夫王らを縊り殺させ服毒自殺した。
Nuribe no miya tsukokimitari and Nakatomi no miya konomuraji azumahito got secret information that 'Prince Nagaya was led into the wrong course and wished to subvert the state', so the troops of rokuefu (six guard divisions) led by FUJIWARA no Umakai besieged the residence of Prince Nagaya and, as a result of inquiries by Imperial Prince Toneri and others, Prince Nagaya ordered to strangle his empress Imperial Princess Kibi and his son Kashiwade no Okimi to death and killed himself with poison.

ところが1433年（永享5年）に比叡山が幕府に十二か条からなる要求を行い、義教は応じたものの、それにもかかわらず僧兵が暴動を起こすに至って激怒し自ら兵を率いて比叡山を攻撃、比叡山側は降伏して一旦は停戦するものの翌年には足利持氏の依頼で義教を比叡山が呪詛しているとの報を受けるに及んで再び出兵、比叡山の高僧を数人斬首するに至り、やがて 1435年（永享7年）2月には比叡山僧侶を焼身自殺に追い込んだ。
In 1433, Yoshinori accepted 12 conditions issued by Hieizan Enryaku-ji Temple but, outraged when monks nonetheless started rioting, led his army in an attack on the temple, forcing it to surrender and accept a ceasefire; however, the following year, Yoshinori received a report from Mochiuji ASHIKAGA that the temple was placing a curse on him, leading him to again send troops and behead several high priests, and in March 1435, the temple's cornered monks immolated themselves.