Man stabs himself outside Japan parliament: police

A Japanese man stabbed himself in the stomach outside Japan's parliament building on Monday, police and ambulance services said, in an apparent suicide attempt by ritual seppuku disembowelment.

A Japanese man stabbed himself in the stomach outside Japan's parliament building on Monday, police and ambulance services said, in an apparent suicide attempt by ritual seppuku disembowelment.

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"We are now investigating his motivation," a police spokesman said.

"The injured man was taken to hospital immediately," said a spokesman for Tokyo emergency services.

Japan's Jiji Press said the man, 39, had survived and appeared to be a member of a right-wing nationalist group.

Japan faces a general election on August 30.

Seppuku is a form of ritualistic suicide once practiced by samurai warriors.