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  • KAMIKAZE, CHERRY BLOSSOMS, AND NATIONALISMS
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    KAMIKAZE, CHERRY BLOSSOMS, AND NATIONALISMS
    EMIKO OHNUKI-TIERNEY
    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 che...

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  • KAMIKAZE DIARIES
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    KAMIKAZE DIARIES
    EMIKO OHNUKI-TIERNEY
    “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 militar...

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