Kamikaze diaries : reflections of Japanese student soldiers /

"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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Temas:
Japan. > Kaigun. > Kamikaze Tokubetsu Kōgekitai.
Japon. > Kaigun. > Kamikaze Tokubetsu Kōgekitai.
Japan. > Kaigun. > Kamikaze Tokubetsu Kōgekitai
1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 > Education and the war.
Kamikaze pilots > Diaries.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Opérations aériennes japonaises.
Kamikazes (Pilotes) > Journaux intimes.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Éducation et guerre.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
Kamikaze pilots
Military operations, Aerial > Japanese
War and education
Diaries
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.

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