A visitor looks at photos of deceased World War II pilots of the Imperial Japanese Army at Chiran Peace Museum in Chiran, Japan. AP CHIRAN, Japan — As young army pilots took off on suicide-attack ...
A couple of years ago I paid an emotional and disturbing visit to an old air base near the southern tip of Japan. Kamikaze pilots received training here and many were launched from here for their ...
TOKYO — A former Japanese army pilot who helped train the infamous kamikaze — flyers who deliberately crashed into their targets — is still telling his story 80 years after the end of World War II, in ...
Think of a kamikaze pilot and the image that comes to mind is probably a screaming face obscured by goggles embarking on a death plunge. Or perhaps no face at all and just a fighter plane plowing into ...
On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito gave a speech on the radio in which he announced the unconditional ...
MINAMI-KYUSHU, Kagoshima Prefecture—Treated as “gods” for sacrificing their lives to protect their country and their families, kamikaze pilots have inspired generations of Japanese in the postwar ...
An ancient story tells of the kamikaze, or "divine wind," that twice saved Japan from Kublai Khan's Mongol fleets. So powerful was the legend that centuries later thousands of World War II pilots ...
USA, Oita Prefecture--Recently released dramatic wartime footage here shows a kamikaze pilot parachuting out of his exploding aircraft and into the sea. The young Japanese aviator miraculously ...
CHIRAN, Japan (AP) — As young army pilots took off on suicide-attack missions in the closing days of World War II, the schoolgirls in this southwestern Japanese town waved handkerchiefs and branches ...