OK, it’s like this. A politician makes some remarks about Yasukuni that are not to your liking or sense of patriotism, so you resolve to set fire to his house. You then plan to ritually disembowel yourself on his doorstep, thus ’showing him’ and ensuring yourself martyr-like status for eternity as a grateful nation looks on in adoration.

Or not, as the case may be.

Perhaps it’s just emblematic of Japan’s decline that rightists can’t even commit seppuku properly these days.