Kamikaze Diaries

Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers

Autor: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: The University of Chicago Press

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We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying...

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Autor

Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2007

strony

246

EAN

9780226619514

ISBN

0226619516

Enbook ID

04548102

Wydawca

The University of Chicago Press

Waga

408

Wymiary

154 x 231 x 21

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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.

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