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[Cambridge]: Polity Press, 1993. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. [8], 365, [1]; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. In Japan "a tradition of voluntary death has existed for more than a millenium. The suicides of samurai warriors, of kamazaze fighter pilots, of artists and lovers are part of a tradition which stretches back over many centuries and which expresses a distinctive way of relating to death" (jacket blurb).