LEADER 04380nam 22007094a 450 001 9910781067903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-53757-1 010 $a9786612537578 010 $a0-226-62092-1 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226620923 035 $a(CKB)2550000000007466 035 $a(EBL)485979 035 $a(OCoLC)593274194 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000339546 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11929403 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000339546 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10325143 035 $a(PQKB)11311064 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000777473 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12362443 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000777473 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10757562 035 $a(PQKB)11582875 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC485979 035 $a(DE-B1597)524071 035 $a(OCoLC)1109371392 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226620923 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL485979 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10366800 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL253757 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000007466 100 $a20051208d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aKamikaze diaries$b[electronic resource] $ereflections of Japanese student soldiers /$fEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-61951-6 311 $a0-226-61950-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 219-224) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAuthor's Note -- $tPreamble -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Sasaki Hachir? -- $t2. Hayashi Tadao -- $t3. Takushima Norimitsu -- $t4. Matsunaga Shigeo and Matsunaga Tatsuki -- $t5. Hayashi Ichiz? -- $t6. Nakao Takenori -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $a"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. 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAerial operations, Japanese 606 $aKamikaze pilots$vDiaries 610 $ajapan, military, soldiers, kamikaze pilots, tokkotai, world war ii, operation, correspondence, diaries, university students, draft, volunteerism, fear, imperialism, oral history, nonfiction, politics, invasion, empire, battle, loyalty, nationalism, enemy, patriotism, freedom, death, meaning, purpose, front lines, flight, air, suicide mission. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAerial operations, Japanese. 615 0$aKamikaze pilots 676 $a940.54/49520922 676 $aB 700 $aOhnuki-Tierney$b Emiko$0690276 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781067903321 996 $aKamikaze diaries$93767468 997 $aUNINA