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"Suicide attacks are a defining act of political violence and an extraordinary social phenomenon. This book investigates the organizers of suicide missions and the perpetrators alike"--Provided by publisher.

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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)