| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 227 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Sasaki Hachiro "What is patriotism? ... the killing of millions of people and depriving billions of people of basic human freedom ...?" -- 2. Hayashi Tadao "All will crumble / Japan will meet its finale" -- 3. Takushima Norimitsu "Why must we fight? We no longer have any purpose for fighting." -- 4. Matsunaga Shigeo and Matsunaga Tatsuki "War is another name for murder ..." -- 5. Hayashi Ichizo "We are assigned the location of our death." -- 6. Nakao Takenori "Am I to simply die without any meaning to my life?" -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-224) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Japan. Kaigun. Kamikaze Tokubetsu Kōgekitai.
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| SUBJECT |
Japan. Kaigun. Kamikaze Tokubetsu Kōgekitai fast |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Japanese.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Education and the war.
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Kamikaze pilots -- Diaries
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Kamikaze pilots
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Military operations, Aerial -- Japanese
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War and education
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| Genre/Form |
Diaries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005035596 |
| ISBN |
9780226620923 |
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0226620921 |
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9780226619507 |
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0226619508 |
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1282537571 |
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9781282537576 |
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9786612537578 |
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6612537574 |
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