04377nam 22007214a 450 991080904040332120240505235302.01-282-53757-197866125375780-226-62092-110.7208/9780226620923(CKB)2550000000007466(EBL)485979(OCoLC)593274194(SSID)ssj0000339546(PQKBManifestationID)11929403(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000339546(PQKBWorkID)10325143(PQKB)11311064(SSID)ssj0000777473(PQKBManifestationID)12362443(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000777473(PQKBWorkID)10757562(PQKB)11582875(MiAaPQ)EBC485979(DE-B1597)524071(OCoLC)1109371392(DE-B1597)9780226620923(Au-PeEL)EBL485979(CaPaEBR)ebr10366800(CaONFJC)MIL253757(EXLCZ)99255000000000746620051208d2006 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrKamikaze diaries reflections of Japanese student soldiers /Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press20061 online resource (255 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-61951-6 0-226-61950-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-224) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Preamble -- Introduction -- 1. Sasaki Hachirō -- 2. Hayashi Tadao -- 3. Takushima Norimitsu -- 4. Matsunaga Shigeo and Matsunaga Tatsuki -- 5. Hayashi Ichizō -- 6. Nakao Takenori -- Notes -- References -- Index"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, 1939-1945Aerial operations, JapaneseKamikaze pilotsDiariesjapan, military, soldiers, kamikaze pilots, tokkotai, world war ii, operation, correspondence, diaries, university students, draft, volunteerism, fear, imperialism, oral history, nonfiction, politics, invasion, empire, battle, loyalty, nationalism, enemy, patriotism, freedom, death, meaning, purpose, front lines, flight, air, suicide mission.World War, 1939-1945Aerial operations, Japanese.Kamikaze pilots940.54/49520922BOhnuki-Tierney Emiko690276MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809040403321Kamikaze diaries3935520UNINA