User:Glover/Japanese oddities

• Odorigui refers to the consumption of live seafood while it is still moving, or the consumption of moving animal parts
• Sokushinbutsu practice of Buddhist monks observing asceticism to the point of death and entering mummification while alive

• Comfort women women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army in occupied territories before and during World War II
• Nanking Massacre an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing (Nanking), then the capital of the Republic of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War
• Unit 731 a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) of World War II
• Tsujigiri a practice when a samurai, after receiving a new katana or developing a new fighting style or weapon, tests its effectiveness by attacking a human opponent, usually a random defenseless passer-by, in many cases during nighttime