MINAMI-KYUSHU, Kagoshima Prefecture--Chino Kuwashiro recalled how her legs trembled as she saw off young kamikaze pilots almost 80 years ago, waving a symbolic cherry blossom branch. In spring ...

When Japan’s defeat became increasingly likely, he was tasked, by secret orders of the Kwantung Army, to record the last will and testament of kamikaze pilots. In an essay titled “Aoi Umi no ...

No war – won or lost – is ever waged without sacrifice. Those sacrifices can be material in the loss of equipment or infrastructure, monetary in the cost to a nation’s economy of waging a war but ...

Chiran is no exception: it is a museum dedicated to kamikaze pilots. Momoka Takashima wanted to come with her parents to Chiran, a former army airfield, after her school trip to the cinema last ...

In the early hours of December 2024, as the sun began to rise, the sound of drones filled the air. This was the first ...

One way the Japanese decided to counter the threat was by using pilots known as kamikaze, which means "divine wind," to fly planes directly into ships. In a culture that embraced the idea of ...