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Kamikaze Diaries - Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers (Paperback, New edition)
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Kamikaze Diaries - Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers (Paperback, New edition)
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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 their
lives for the emperor. But the writings explored here by Emiko
Ohnuki-Tierney clearly and eloquently speak otherwise. A
significant number of the kamikaze were university students who
were drafted and forced to volunteer, and in their diaries and
correspondence they often wrote heartbreaking soliloquies in which
they poured out their anguish and fear and expressed profound
ambivalence toward the war as well as opposition to their nation's
imperialism.
A salutary correction to the many caricatures of the kamikaze, this
poignant work will be essential to anyone interested in the history
of Japan and World War II. "Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney's book is designed
to challenge Western perceptions of the kamikaze generation. By
assembling brief biographies of some of the young Japanese who
perished on suicide missions, and by quoting extensively from their
wartime diaries and poetry, she portrays a group of literate,
thoughtful people, most of whom hated the war and were reluctant to
die."--" SundayTelegraph "(UK)
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