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 ...
The interior of the Chiran Peace Museum, showing doomed pilots before their departure In recent weeks, all across Asia there have been countless ceremonies, somber and solemn, to mark the 70th ...
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Japan's kamikaze fighter: The Mitsubishi Zero

Japan would create arguably the greatest fighter in the Second World War - the Mitsubishi Zero, but their failed War ...
On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito gave a speech on the radio in which he announced the unconditional surrender of Japan to the Allied powers. Among many nationalistic Japanese, ...
TOKYO — “For Those We Love,” the controversial pic about WWII kamikaze pilots penned and exec produced by Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara, has gotten off to a boffo start at the Japanese B.O. Pic, ...
TOKYO (AP) — Genshitsu Sen, a former Kamikaze pilot trainee who later promoted peace as a grand master of the Japanese tea ceremony, has died, officials said Thursday. He was 102. Sen had been ...
"I went from thinking a group of people were my enemy to finding my best friend," Jerry Yellin tells PEOPLE As a member of the 78th fighter squadron during World War II, former Army Air Corps Captain ...