Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers

by 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.

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Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226619516

ISBN13:9780226619514

Release Date:April 2007

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:246 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Anthropology Asia Biographies Cultural Ethnic & National History Japan Japanese Leaders & Notable People Memoirs Military Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences World War II

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