Kamikaze Diaries
Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
- Contents
- Review Quotes

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
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Asian Studies: East Asia
History: Asian History | Military History
Philosophy: Aesthetics | Philosophy of Society
Psychology: Social Psychology
Sociology: Individual, State and Society
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