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The Kamikaze Pilots were trying to save their nation as they truly believed they could. They didn't think they were throwing their lives away in vain, or wasting them

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Japanese Find New Respect For ‘Kamikaze Survivors’

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Japanese Find New Respect For ‘Kamikaze Survivors’

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In a squadron of 100, the three that didn’t volunteer were beat up.

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Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms : The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History

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Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms : The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History

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Both Sasaki and Hayashi wanted to create a completely New Japan in addition to defeating and destroying the U.S. and Europe, as Japan was also corrupted by capitalism

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Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms : The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History

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Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms : The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History

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Seki Yukio was in love with his wife and said that he wouldn’t die for the emperor of Imperial Japan. He would die for his wife.

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Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms : The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History

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Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms : The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History

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The pilots used Marxism as and idealism to fight against capitalism.

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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers

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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers

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They agreed with their missions to save their families

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They agreed with their missions for their nation or their emperor

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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers

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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers

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“I found my absolute authority here. If man did not possess a political nature, I would not mind sacrificing my life for this absolute authority [beauty and nature]”

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The idealism of the Kamikaze pilots led them to complete their missions

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Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms : The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History

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Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms : The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History

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They did because they didn't want to bring shame unto their family

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Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms : The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History

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Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms : The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History

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They were forced to volunteer or did it out of peer pressure

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Japanese Find New Respect For ‘Kamikaze Survivors’

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Japanese Find New Respect For ‘Kamikaze Survivors’

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Shigeyoshi says after seeing a fingerprint of his mothers on a rice cake brought to him by his brother he thought “If I don't die now, it will bring shame on my parents.” “I have to die.”

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Japanese Find New Respect For ‘Kamikaze Survivors’

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Japanese Find New Respect For ‘Kamikaze Survivors’

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"We believed our actions would please our parents because it was honorable," said 77 year old Iwao Miura. "That's all."

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Japanese Find New Respect For ‘Kamikaze Survivors’

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Japanese Find New Respect For ‘Kamikaze Survivors’

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Some pilots aren’t quite sure what pushed them to do what they did, but Hideo Den, a Kamikaze Survivor says that the emperor at the time was a divine being, a god even

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Japanese Kamikaze Pilots agreed with their missions

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Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms : The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History

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Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms : The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History

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Japanese Kamikaze Pilots didn't agree with their missions and did it because of other influencing factors

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Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms : The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History

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Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms : The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History

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Yamada Ryu or Kuroda Kenjiro were still drafted into the program even after they didn't volunteer

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Japanese Find New Respect For ‘Kamikaze Survivors’

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Japanese Find New Respect For ‘Kamikaze Survivors’

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Shigeyoshi, a Kamikaze survivor
says that he and his comrades didn’t really have a choice.

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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers

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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers

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“After listening to the fifty-year history of the First Higher School… when all of us, sang “Gyokuhai [the school song], I shed tears, unexpectedly. The members of the entire school put our efforts together in order to build our country. This is how the graduates of the First Higher School carry out the role of leading the nation” - Sasaki Hichiro a Kamikaze Pilot

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Japanese Kamikaze pilots were introduced after the Japanese were on the verge of losing WWII in 1945. They would do damage by killing Americans with themselves in battle in a suicide attack