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Kamikaze diaries : reflections of Japanese student soldiers

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"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 sond of the clock shortening our lives." So wrote Irokawa Daichichi, one of the many kamikaze pilots, or tokkōtai, who faced almost certain death in the futile military operations conducted by Japan at the end of World War II. This history presents diaries and correspondence left by members of the tokkōtai and other Japanese student soldiers who perished during the war. -- From the book jacket.