| Well, actually, there are. In Japan, if you have disgrace yourself and bring shame upon your family, you have to kill yourself. If you don't kill yourself, honor can not be restore to your family. This means that when your wife goes grocery shopping, people will not sell her food. When your children goes to school, teachers will talk down on your children. Students will bully your children. Neighbors will assault your children. At work, all the women will call your wife a slut behind her back, but making sure it's loud enough for her to hear it. Your wife's boss will make sexual advances toward your wife because she is now no longer a respectable woman. You clan members will disown your father and make fun of him for birthing such a disgraceful son. When disown by a clan, you and your family can no longer go to them for support in any form (financial, emotional, social, etc). Police will purposely pulled you over and give your a ticket. You son will not be able to get a job because no one will want to hire him. No one want to associate with a disgraceful person like him. All these societal pressures will not stop until you kill yourself and bring honor back to your family's name. So yes, you have to kill yourself, if you don't want your family to suffer. |
No, there aren't. Just because the Japanese have an old barbaric and dying tradition of ritual suicide, doesn't mean it's proper in this day an age.
> In Japan, if you have disgrace yourself and bring shame upon your family, you have to kill yourself.
No you don't. Those "old traditions" are dying out and no longer seen as necessary by the younger generations.