Kamikaze Diaries
Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
246 pages, 12 halftones 6 x 9
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2006
Cloth $25.00
ISBN: 9780226619507
Published May 2006
Paper $15.00
ISBN: 9780226619514
Published April 2007
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Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Preamble
Introduction
Chapter 1: Sasaki Hachiro
“What is patriotism? . . . the killing of millions of people and depriving billions of people of basic human freedom . . . ?”
Chapter 2: Hayashi Tadao
“All will crumble / Japan will meet its finale”
Chapter 3: Takushima Norimitsu
“Why must we fight? We no longer have any purpose for fighting.”
Chapter 4: Matsunaga Shigeo and Matsunaga Tatsuki
“War is another name for murder. . . .”
Chapter 5: Hayashi Ichizo
“We are assigned the location of our death.”
Chapter 6: Nakao Takenori
“Am I to simply die without any meaning to my life?”
Notes
References
Index
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