Kamikaze, cherry blossoms, and nationalisms the militarization of aesthetics in Japanese history /

Kamikaze, cherry blossoms, and nationalisms the militarization of aesthetics in Japanese history /

Why did almost one thousand highly educated "student soldiers" volunteer to serve in Japan's tokkotai (kamikaze) operations near the end of World War II, even though Japan was losing the war? In this fascinating study of the role of symbolism and aesthetics in totalitarian ideology, E...

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Main Author: Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko.
Format: Electronic Online Resource eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Kamikaze airplanes.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 > Education and the war.
Kamikaze pilots.
College students > Japan.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Ebook Central Academic Complete
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