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Looks at the Japanese suicide bombers and the devastation they caused during World War II. Investigates the factors that led young Japanese pilots to go on suicidal missions. Examines the role that fear of the kamikaze played in the United States' decision to avoid an invasion of the Japanese mainland. Includes footage of actual kamikaze attacks from U.S. and Japanese newsreels. Engels gesproken, Nederlands ...

Includes index. XVIII, 227 p., [8] p. pl. : ill. ; 23 cm

Met samenvatting in het Engels.

Met index. XXII, 224 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

6th print. 187 p. ; 18 cm.

初版. 254 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

This book presents World War II and the American Occupation of Japan as experienced in Oita Prefecture through first-hand accounts of 40 Japanese men and women who lived through the war as students, midwives, nurses, teachers, journalists, soldiers, sailors, Kamikaze pilots, munitions factory workers, and housewives. Their stories of spirited support for the war, to loss of friends from American air ...

初版. 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm