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Kamikaze
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
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Kamikaze (Jap., ‘Divine Wind’, so-called from the strong winds and storms which dispersed two Mongol invasions in 1274 and 1281). Japanese pilots during the Second World War who volunteered, from 1944 onward, to undertake missions against enemy targets in which they were ‘flying bombs’, and from which, therefore, they could not expect to return alive. Related to kamikaze were the
kaiten (turning of the heaven), human torpedoes. They wore white scarves and also round their foreheads a white cloth, taken from the
hachimaki, the cloths worn by
samurai warriors. In a Zen perspective (often referred to by volunteers who survived), death is of no greater importance (or less) than any other event or manifestation. In a wider Japanese perspective, the spirits of warriors who die in obedience to the emperor return in any case to Japan, and in particular to the Shinto Yasukuni (Country of Peace) shrine in Tokyo. This shrine was founded in 1879 as the Tokyo Shokon Jinja (shrine).
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THE LAST KAMIKAZES
Magazine article from: Sea Classics; 2/1/2005; ; 700+ words
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The end of Kamikaze?
Newspaper article from: The Malay Mail; 11/19/2001; ; 700+ words
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'Wings of Defeat': Kamikaze Stories, Told in Person
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 4/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...ULABY: The former kamikazes are featured in a new...end of the war. The kamikaze corps was not volunteer...barely able to fly. The kamikazes were told they were...heavily over the former kamikazes' conversation. Ueshima...ULABY: The former kamikaze said they never could...
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Myth of the Kamikazes.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 8/16/2002; ; 700+ words
; Byline: LAURENCE REES KAMIKAZE: JAPAN'S SUICIDE GODS by Albert...but only part - of the answer. The kamikaze were born of desperation. Only when...British ships. By 1944 - the year kamikaze attacks began - the Japanese leadership...
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The Kamikaze mindset. (Frontline).
Magazine article from: History Today; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...sound of mind. Given that Japan's Kamikaze pilots were sound of mind, why then...month before the Al-Qaida attacks, the Kamikaze phenomenon again created headlines when...Takijiro Onishi, known as `the father of Kamikaze strategy', who died by his own hand...
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Japan's Kamikazes Return in Glory
News Wire article from: AP Online; 7/8/2007; 700+ words
; ...anthropologist and author of "Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese...the brutal reality of the kamikaze missions, it is becoming...nationalists to present the kamikazes as "the model Japanese...said. The Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots in Chiran goes to great...
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Japan's right glorifies WWII kamikaze pilots
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 7/13/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...anthropologist and author of "Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese...the brutal reality of the kamikaze missions, it is becoming...nationalists to present the kamikazes as "the model Japanese...said. The Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots in Chiran goes to great...
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Japanese conservatives see kamikaze pilots as models
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 7/9/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the brutal reality of the kamikaze missions, it is becoming...nationalists to present the kamikazes as "the model Japanese...said. The Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots in Chiran goes to great...However, any parallel between kamikazes and 9/11 terrorists is angrily...
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Film, Museum Spark Interest in Kamikaze
News Wire article from: AP Online; 7/8/2007; 700+ words
; ...anthropologist and author of "Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese...the brutal reality of the kamikaze missions, it is becoming...nationalists to present the kamikazes as "the model Japanese...said. The Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots in Chiran goes to great...
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`Kamikazes' of a modern-day battle.(A)(World)(Briefing/Pacific Rim)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 9/21/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...politics, religion and ideals as Japan's kamikaze pilots who acted similarly in the final...Tokkotai" - and foreigners called them kamikaze, a Japanese phrase meaning "divine...Ohnishi is credited with the idea of kamikaze squads. He is reported to have said...
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kamikaze pilots
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
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kamikaze
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
kamikaze ˌkämiˈk...pilot or plane. Japan officially formed a kamikaze force in late 1944. During the American...and damaged 368. An estimated 5,000 kamikaze pilots died in action. In Japanese tradition...
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Kamikaze
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Kamikaze (Jap., ‘Divine Wind’, so-called from the strong...from which, therefore, they could not expect to return alive. Related to kamikaze were the kaiten (turning of the heaven), human torpedoes. They wore...
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kamikaze packet
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Internet
kamikaze packet Another name for a CHRISTMAS TREE PACKET .
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kamikaze pricing
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management
kamikaze pricing The practice of offering loans and transactions at exceptionally low rates to capture a larger share of the corporate banking...
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