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ISBN: 9782343133379 2343133379 Year: 2018 Publisher: Paris : l'Harmattan,
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ISBN: 9788973372577 Year: 2010 Publisher: 서울 해냄
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ISBN: 9782262102548 Year: 2024 Publisher: Paris : Perrin,
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Kamikaze pilots --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Aerial operations, Japanese.
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Kamikaze pilots --- World War, 1939-1945 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Personal narratives, Japanese --- Aerial operations, Japanese.
ISBN: 9780226620923 9786612537578 0226620921 9780226619507 0226619508 0226619508 1282537571 9781282537576 6612537574 Year: 2006 Publisher: Chicago 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 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 and chauvinists 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 for this desperate military operation. Such young men were the intellectual elite of modern Japan: steeped in the classics and major works of philosophy, they took Descartes' & I think, therefore I am& as their motto. And in their diaries and correspondence, as Ohnuki-Tierney shows, these student soldiers wrote long and often heartbreaking soliloquies in which they poured out their anguish and fear, expressed profound ambivalence toward the war, and articulated thoughtful 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.
World War, 1939-1945 --- Kamikaze pilots --- Kamikaze bombers (Persons) --- Bomber pilots --- Aerial operations, Japanese. --- Aerial operations, Japanese --- Japan. --- Kamikaze Tokubetsu Kōgekitai (Japan) --- Shimpū Tokubetsu Kōgekitai (Japan) --- Japanese Naval Special Attack Force --- 日本.
ISBN: 128267918X 9786612679186 0226620689 9780226620688 9780226620909 0226620905 0226620905 0226620913 9780226620916 Year: 2004 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press,
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Why did almost one thousand highly educated "student soldiers" volunteer to serve in Japan's tokkotai (kamikaze) operations near the end of World War II, even though Japan was losing the war? In this fascinating study of the role of symbolism and aesthetics in totalitarian ideology, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney shows how the state manipulated the time-honored Japanese symbol of the cherry blossom to convince people that it was their honor to "die like beautiful falling cherry petals" for the emperor. Drawing on diaries never before published in English, Ohnuki-Tierney describes these young men's agonies and even defiance against the imperial ideology. Passionately devoted to cosmopolitan intellectual traditions, the pilots saw the cherry blossom not in militaristic terms, but as a symbol of the painful beauty and unresolved ambiguities of their tragically brief lives. Using Japan as an example, the author breaks new ground in the understanding of symbolic communication, nationalism, and totalitarian ideologies and their execution.
Kamikaze airplanes. --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Kamikaze pilots. --- College students --- Kamikaze bombers (Persons) --- Bomber pilots --- Kamikaze aeroplanes --- Suicide airplanes --- Bombers --- Aerial operations, Japanese. --- Education and the war. --- Aerial operations, Japanese --- Kamikaze airplanes --- Kamikaze pilots --- J4122 --- J6008.80 --- J6020 --- Education and the war --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- nationalism --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- history -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- Japanese aesthetics (Japonism)
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