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050 00 $aD792.J3$bO265 2006
082 00 $a940.54/49520922$aB$222
100 1 $aOhnuki-Tierney, Emiko.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80119614
245 10 $aKamikaze diaries :$breflections of Japanese student soldiers /$cEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2006.
300 $axviii, 227 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 219-224) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tWhat is patriotism? ... the killing of millions of people and depriving billions of people of basic human freedom ... ? /$rSasaki Hachiro -- $gCh. 2.$tAll will crumble/Japan will meet its finale /$rHayashi Tadao -- $gCh. 3.$tWhy must we fight? we no longer have any purpose for fighting /$rTakushima Norimitsu -- $gCh. 4.$tWar is another name for murder /$rMatsunaga Shigeo and Matsunaga Tatsuki -- $gCh. 5.$tWe are assigned the location of our death /$rHayashi Ichizo -- $gCh. 6.$tAm I to simply die without any meaning to my life? /$rNakao Takenori.
520 1 $a"This history presents diaries and correspondence left by members of the tokkotai, or kamikaze pilots, and other Japanese student soldiers who perished during World War II. 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 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 work will be essential to anyone interested in the history of Japan, World War II, or the tragedy of war itself."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAerial operations, Japanese.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002009824
650 0 $aKamikaze pilots$vDiaries.
610 10 $aJapan.$bKaigun.$bKamikaze Tokubetsu Kōgekitai.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82059046
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