Kamikaze Diaries Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers

Name: Kamikaze Diaries Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
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ISBN: 9780226619514

ISBN-10: 0226619516

ISBN-13: 9780226619514

Edition: 2007

Authors: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

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"We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our death, every sound of the clock shortening our lives." So wrote Irokawa Daikichi, one of the many kamikaze pilots, or "tokkotai," who faced almost certain death in the futile military operations conducted by Japan at the end of World War II. This moving history presents diaries and correspondence left by members of the "tokkotai "and other Japanese student soldiers who perished during the war. Outside of Japan, these kamikaze pilots were considered unbridled fanatics who willingly sacrificed…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.91" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Author's Note


Preamble


Introduction



Sasaki Hachiro



Hayashi Tadao



Takushima Norimitsu



Matsunaga Shigeo and Matsunaga Tatsuki



Hayashi Ichizo



Nakao Takenori


Notes


References


Index