The book is based on accounts he told a former prosecutor, who became his friend through their shared love of kendo martial art, and a retired newspaper reporter. Odachi was 87 years old when he ...

That night, Oct. 25, 1944, Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo announced the launching of the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps, named for the “divine wind” that had saved Japan from Mongol invasion in ...

Despite the lack of coverage of suicide attacks on Allied vessels, Kamikaze Attacks of World War II is a valuable book for all students of the Pacific War.

You will need to research the poet’s background to discover answers to these questions. But if you do write about a poem and its context, be careful to include only details that reveal something ...

Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, who wrote a book, Danger’s Hour, about the kamikaze, says they were driven by nothing but self-sacrifice. He found they were very much like Americans or young people ...

In this narrative poem, Beatrice Garland explores the testimony of the daughter of a kamikaze pilot. Unlike many of his comrades, this pilot turns back from his target and returns home.