Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9780226620688
0226620689
9780226620909
0226620905
0226620905
0226620913
9780226620916
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-399) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney shows how the state manipulated the time-honored Japanese symbol of the cherry blossom to convince people that it was their honor to ""die like beautiful falling cherry petals"" for the emperor. Drawing on diaries never before published in English, Ohnuki-Tierney describes.
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| Other form: | Print version: Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. Kamikaze, cherry blossoms, and nationalisms. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002 9780226620909
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