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Kamikaze, cherry blossoms, and nationalisms : the militarization of aesthetics in Japanese history /

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...

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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, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvii, 411 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-399) and index.
ISBN:9780226620688
0226620689
9780226620909
0226620905