<< previous image | next image >>. People have become significant earth movers, outpacing all sources of natural erosion. More and more of our footprint can be seen from space in many forms, including cities, reservoirs, agriculture and deforestation. Among the most impressive human scars on the planet are open-pit mines.
Life and Death in Japanese is çæ­» which is read seishi.The Japanese word seishi means Life and Death and also translates as the Buddhist concept Samsara (cycle of death and rebirth) and is composed of the kanji (read sei) meaning life; birth and (read shi) meaning death; die.
It is commonly pointed out that hara-kiri is a vulgarism, but this is a misunderstanding. Hara-kiri is a Japanese reading or Kun-yomi of the characters; as it became customary to prefer Chinese readings in official announcements, only the term seppuku was ever used in writing.he practice of committing seppuku at the death of one's master, known as oibara (è¿½è¹ or è¿½ãè¹, the kun'yomi or Japanese reading) or tsuifuku (è¿½è¹, the on'yomi or Chinese reading), follows a similar ritual. The word jigai (èªå®³) means suicide in Japanese. The usual modern word for suicide is jisatsu (èªæ®º) .