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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2002.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 411 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-399) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226620688 0226620689 9780226620909 0226620905 |