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Japanese Americans Held Memorial Services At Former Concentration Camp
the San Mateo, Calif, bus station location- camps because it was
recently to commemorate- their eared. Little remains of
center
camp except- scattered length of and-the’ first Teg of his journey converted in 1943 to a
imprisonment.7.
to Tule Lake.
' for the “proven”, disloyal..
While.' the rest of the nation barbed wife fence* an occasio­ - “I still have that eerie guilty
Dr; Harry Hatasaka, 45; Pabuilding
and
prepared to honor its war dead, nal dilapidated
feeling — it made me feel Uke 1° Alto, Calif., spoke recently
the Japanese Americans;. were painful memories in. the minds a leper or a criminal.”
not “ » f?meI camp inmate but
conducting memorial services in of those who lived there...
as the governor of the sponso­
The pain for the 50 returning
The United States-government ring No. Calif.-Western Nevada
Klamath Falls for those who diTakeshita, .44, of .Richmond,
ed of natural causes at the ne- ex-ihmates appears- to have litt­ never proved the disloyalty of District Council of the Japane­
Calif, was one on 110,000 Japa­
outside le to do with crowded living con­ 110,000 ‘Japanese .Americans'. se American Citizens League.
. arby relocation camp'
nese Americans: deemed security
ditions, poor food and disrupti­ J They were instead regarded as
Tule take, califi
' “It should not be the purpo­
risks and-7 evacuated from
the
on of normal life. It has much a potential fifth column for the
se
to dwell on the injustices of
camp, •to do with shame and disillusThey also visited the
•West Coast in World War- II
Japanese
enemy
on
the
West
the incarceration. Rather, it is
- after the Japanese bombed. Pea­ which since has. become the site ion.
Coast.
for us to rededicate our lives- to
.of an elementary school.
rl. Harbor.
;
friends of
“I could see the
For the very 'patriotic, Japan­ see that this form of quilt /by
The 1200 barracks that held up' my family peeking out of their
• He also was one of
about
ese American, Tule Lake. was reason of race does not occur
200. Japanese- Americans - from to 22,000 persons -between 1942: curtains,” said Takeshita, recagain.”
here and 1946 virtually have disapp- ailing* his trek at age 11 to the' the worst of the nation’s 10 reCalifornia who gathered

KLAMATH FALLS, Oregon.
'
It was years before Ben Ta­
keshita would admit that he was
once confined in a concentration
camp in his own
country. He
was too ashamed.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1974

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Jpnz. Canadian Cultural Centre Given
$1,300
Carling
Arts
Foundation
Fund
NISEI: Best Of

Part I

TORONTO
TORONTO, —
— The
The Japanese
Japanese
Ganadian Cultural Centre -has
been • awarded a $1,300.00 Carl­
ing Community Arts Foundati­
on grant, it was announced this
week.
.
The grant will provide authe­
ntic costumes and
decorations
from Tokyo for- use in the Tokyo
Pavillion of Metro Caravan and
for use in other multicultural fe­

Awards totalling $175,000 we- I dent Board of Trustees, the Fore granted to 140 groups and in- j undation provides assistance to
dividuals across Canada by the Canadians of all cultural backCarling Community Arts Foun- grounds that, they might preser­
ve and learn more about their
dation.
and al­
By GRAYCE YAMAMOTO
The Foundation which was es­ own cultural heritages
tablished by CarlingO’Keefe so develop a deeper appreciation
Grayce H< Yamamoto, frequ-' the dream of ultimately retur'«it New Canadian columnist, st- [ ning to their relatives and famiBreweries last December,, pro­ and tolerance for that of others.
arts her series on “Nisei: Best of- lies left behind in Japan, to retCommenting on the Foundati- .
vides funding for ethno cultural
Both Worlds?” Originally from ire in a degree of comfort other­
on’s funding to date, the Chair­
projects.
them
in
Slocan and Nelson, B.C., Gray- wise impossible for
Manager,
Marie
Operating nationally and un­ man-General
ce has lived for a time in Japan. those-times. Many, of course, se­
der the auspices of an indepen- McCormick stated that assistan­
Currently she lives in Germany. ttled in Canada with the. hope stivals. ■
ce for 220 diverse multicultural /
of a new future for themselves
and their offspring;, to provi­
projects already has been provi­
de -for them the opportunities
ded at a total cost exceeding sli­
’ - Webster’s Third New Inter- and advantages which they, by
ghtly over one quarter million
> national Dictionary' defines NI­ reason of birth and circumstaTOKYO. — The Japanese fall which holidaymakers included
dollars.
SEI- a? a “son or daughter of I- nee, could never have attained behind other advanced
nations both young and old.
ssei parents who is born and in the status-conscious
In Japan, those between the
rigidly in regard to spending their leis­
educated in America and especi- structured society which
was ure moments, the Kyodo News ages of 18 and 24 constituted
• ally; in the U.S., ■ distinguished the Japan they had left behind. Service said.
38.1 per cent of tourists visiting
■_
from Kibei (who are. NISEI rai­
A panel of advisors to the In­ pleasure ispots. On the . other
The first Japanese to arrive
sed in Japan). The term NISEI
countries, 29
ternational Trade and Industry hand, in foreign
has . yet, however, to be incor- in Canada was a sailor- by - the
per
cent of those vacationing at
name of Nagano Manzo, - who minister has come up with its
. pofated into the English langu­
of age
jumped' ship in 1877 at.New We- result of a survey it conducted the areas were 45 years
age with the ease and underst­
- .
established him- in Japan and abroad during the or over.
TOKYO. — Drug
crimes in
anding with which other Japa- stminister and
than a
Vacationing for less
period
of
July-September
lastfishing
on
the
_ ’ nese words’ such as tsunami’, ‘ka- -^ in pinion
Japan increased sharply
over
week was. most frequent among
forerunner
of year. - ' ' •
.
::
fiscal 1973, especially in heroin
rate’, ‘tempura’, ‘hara-kiri’, ‘sa'-; ^aser
the Japanese with 40.6 per cent,
his
countrymen
of
The
survey
covered
a'total
yonara’ ’ have found their way. thousands of
and stimulant drugs, but
the
followed by those ■ who spend oIn fact’- it is still a very long who wou d in later years fol- 2667 persons over_the age of 18
numbef of drug abusers here is
ne to two weeks, 28 per cent;
low him in that occupation and from 20 different countries.
lower than other major indus­
. way from becoming a (WASP)
and three weeks- to one month,
prosper. After a few years of
trial nations, a government re­
household word and those who
- They included Acapulco, Mexi" 10 per cent.
fishing, however, he quit and
port recently.
_ .
are- famiiar with terms such as
co; Cannes, France; Corfu, Gre­
went
to
Gastown
(Vancouver)
One
to
two-week
vacationers
ISSEI, NISEI, SANSEI, KIBEI,
ece; and? Rimini, Italy. In Japan,
' Authorities arrested 1477 pe­
where he became a longshore­
etc., are those with a particular
at were largest’ ip . number in the rsons on charges of narcotics vi­
3367
persons
were
contacted
man, but his wanderlust again
interest- <in and an acquaintance
•U.S.- and Latin American coun­ olations* a 12.1 per cent increa­
. -overcome ’him and he spent ye­ eight scenic resorts.
, - with things and persons JapaEuropean se over the previous year, the
The survey showed young of- tries, while in west
ars crossing and re-crossing the
• - nese. They- are doubtless most
Pacific until'in 1892, he finally fice workers constituted the do- nations, the bulk of vacationers report said.
f amiliar with the . term NISEI
Those arrested on charges of
settled in Victoria- and opened minant portion of Japanese pie-- were out three to four weeks.
_ - for it- is this' generation of ' imstimulant drug related
crimes
asure seekers in' sharp contrast
The survey also indicated that ^^ ^^ a 7&1 ^ cent mT
7 migrant- Japanese -who have thus a small store.
pattern in
The bulk of the immigrants with the Western
far-made the most substantial iforeigners save part of their re1972.
came
after
the
law
permitting
gular earnings in order to tra- .
T
mpact and impression upon the
emigration had- been passed in Japan Dress Designer
vel while the Japanese depend
Most of these drugs are smug­
countries in.-'.which.-.-they were
on bonuses and extra income. gled and-distributed in 'Japan
born and raised, mainly Canada, Japan in 1886. In the first 'de- Fined For'Indecent
Television viewing
constituted by crime organizations, the re­
"the United States, and Brazil. cade’ following, however,- there
added.
were not - more than 1000 Japa*- Display' While Streaking the greatest pastime at
home port
I. HUMBLE ORIGINS
nese living in Canada,- most- of
Total number of narcotics ad­
TOKYO. — The Tokyo Sum­ and abroad. •
whom*
were
fishermen?
But
so
­
Upon their, shoulders was pladicts
was 6465 of which only
But Westerners regarded as
mary- Court recently fined 31on
thereafter,
they
came
in
in
­
. . ^ed the burden of proving the
year old Japanese dress design­ next best association with frie- 74 were “criminal- abusers,” au­
creasing
numbers,'
until
in
1901,
loyalty and patriotism which
er Hiroaki Kenmochi 10,00(1 yen nds and outdoor sports while the thorities said. Others wCre des­
■ their
inarticulate . immigrant there, were ■ 4,738 Japanese, 97% ($35) for “indecent display” in Japanese preferred the pleasu- cribed as those who were under
parents were unable’ to do. Their of which lived in B.C.
“medical treatment for . painful
streaking through a- street three res- of the home:
parents', in .the- Jhain,; considered -. Most of them had come from days before.
- tn sports, swimming.. and pic- disease.”
'.. themselvesonly temporary Ca- the agrarian (farming)
class, . • Officials said 'this' - was the nicking were^ favored in foreign
Japan’s fiscal year starts A- nadians; in heart and mihd,_they lured by the prospect, of a mefirst time a" streaker, was fined countries* and bowling, baseball pril 1 and ends Mar. 31 "of the
' were still Japanese, earning a
following year.
-and golf in "Japan;
in Japan.
- :
Cont. on P. 2
living as''-best*' ; they - .could, ■ with ■

Two Worlds?

Japanese Behind In How To Holiday

Drug Crimes In
Japan Makes
Sharp Increase

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♦THE

Nisei . ..
little understood agreement, ho­
wever, and it was not until -1928
that the /Gentlemen’s Agreem­
ent’ was modidied to give Canada control of the entry of Jap anese into the Dominion.
The' First World War allevia­
ted the plight of the Japanese
only temporarily: the shortage
of labour which was created
when the white population enli­
sted allowed Japanese to. gain
experience in many fields previ­
ously closed to them, and to pro­
fit in fields in which they we­
re working, such as lumber, mi­
ning, fishing, albeit in limited
numbers; The fact that Japan
was an ally of Great
Britain
lessened the hatred of the whi­
tes. But immediately the 'War
ended and whites returned to a
depressed economy with
high
unemployment and slow busin­
ess, discriminatory voices were
again raised in resentment aga­
inst the Japanese who had ‘ta­
ken over their jobs’ while they
were away fighting for
their
country.

In the fishing industry in 19Jobs for this labour force we­
re plentiful at first in the fish­ 19^ for example, the Japanese
ing, cannery, and boat-building accounted for 3,267 fishing lic­
industries _ along the
southern ences, nearly one-half the total
B.G. coast, in mining and logg­ issued that .year. Acting on the
ing, but inevitably
organized complaint that the Japanese th­
labour, which suffered from the reatened to drive the whites and
impact of this cheap labour so­ the Indians out of the fishing
urce, formed an anti-Asiatic Le- industry, in 1920 and 1921, the
ague in 1907, and sought to li- Dominion Department of Fishe­
mit and control Japanese immi- ries directed the Vancouver fish­
gration. As early as 1891, an ery commisi oners to limit the
attempt had been made in the number of licences to Japanese
B.C. Legislature to limit Japa­ fishermen to the same number
nese immigration by an amen­ as that in 1919. The result of
dment to a motion to increase this and further legislation was
the Chinese Head Tax from $50 to .drive many Japanese out of
to $200 and to extend it to in­ the fishing industry and trans­
clude Japanese, but the amend- fer .them to. other industries.
ment was withdrawn. After 18- j Tn lumbering, by 1900,
the
95, many laws of a restrictive ; Japanese were employed in all
nature were enacted to prevent branches of the industry to such
further immigration, with
the an extent that here too, they
result that after 1900, Japanese were considered a threat to the
immigration to : Canada came white labourers, The Royal Co­
to a standstill. A contributing mmision, which investigated the
factor was the impending war complaints at this, time, repor­
with Russia, for which Japan ted that the Japanese were em­
stopped all immigration ■ until ployed in the mills in the propo­
1905. However, in the year fo­ tion of one to four. Many att­
llowing the ■ end of the
crisis, empts were made to drive them
2000 more Japanese entered Ca­ out of this industry: Operators
nada; inT907, 2042; in 1908 o- on provincial lands would lose
ver 7,000 arrived and the situa- their licences if they employed
operators
tion became once again acute,; Japanese; Japanese
get
in that, the total Japanese popu­ were unable to retain or
lation numbered 10,513. The vi­ new licences; the law on mi­
gorous agitation of the Anti­ nimum wages passed in 1925 by
Asiatic. League culminated
in the B.C. Legislature served to
a riot on September 7,
1907:. limit and discourage Japanese
Mobs of white agitators marched employment in the lumber and
on Chinatown where they inflic­ mining industry as well: there
ted much property damage, but was no restriction on the emplo­
were prevented from doing the yer regarding the nationality of
same to the areas where Japa- his workers or rates of pay, but
'nese lived. A Royal Commission in actual fact, the, white-worker
was formed to investigate the si­ received about a 25% higher ra­
tuation', and. various investigat­ te of pay than the Oriental be­
ions were also made, the result cause of ‘his greater efficiency’.
being an understanding known Therefore, if the employer were
as the ‘Gentlemen’s Agreement’, forced to pay his Oriental wor­
in which japari agreed to' vo­ kers 40 cents per hour, his whi­
luntarily restrict emigration. It te workers must receive more;
was an obscure, confusing and alternatively, he could decrease

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ans of escape from the severe
.. economic and social conditions
which existed at that crucial ti­
me in which Japan was. under­
going the change from a policy
of isolation to internationalism,
from an agrarian culture to an
industri alized -nation. Similar * to
the effect of the Industrial Re­
volution upon Britain and Euror
pe, it was the peasant
class
most affected by this change,
for they were the conservatives,
clinging to the old ways, resis­
ting change - and ,progress. In
feudal . Japan, the "peasant cla­
sses were' situated
mainly in
farming villages in the south­
western part of the Islands, and
these inhabitants of such pre­
fectures as Hiroshima, Okayas
ma,
Kumamoto,
Yamaguchi,
Wakayama, Okinawa
were among the poorest, most overpo­
pulated in the Japanese Empi­
re. From these prefectures ■ ca­
me the first immigrants to Ca­
nada. Those: from urban areas
were mainly
shopkeepers and
children of shopkeepers.

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the number of Orientals and hi­ Japan to_ Vancouver cost
100
re whites instead. Later, due to yen, a small fortune for Japa­
the protests of employers, the nese, equivalent to $50.
Many
law was modified so that about immigrants had no
money to
25% of the workers in the in- go any farther that B.C. and it
dustry could get the previous can be supposed that the agree­
wage of 25 cents an hour, and able coastal climate with
its
this 25% included 'Orientals. Su­ mountains and green valleys, a
ch policies of continued restric­ bundant rivers and streams for
tions drove Japanese out of the fishing brought back nostalgic
lumber industry to such an ext­ memories of' their homeland, re­
ent that whereas in 1925, 44.80 inforcing their drive to
work
% of-employees were Orientals, hard and save enough money to
in 1926, the total
number of return or to call their families
Japanese was dropped to 34.30 "over.
% within a year after passage
had
The immigration which
of the law. As a result, the Ja­ begun in the first years of Meiji
panese who were driven out of in the form of seasonal migrafishing and lumbering later tu­ tion of mainly bachelors gradu­
rned to small fruit andc vegeta­ ally turned into . picture-bride,
ble farming or found employ­ wife, and finally immigration of
ment managing or. working in whole families and clans. The
restaurants, boarding houses, la­ seemingly endless influx of Ja­
undries, barber shops, in small panese coupled with the rising
shops or in households as dome­ birth rate of settled immigran­
stics. From the basic lumbering, ts striving to make a living afishing, and mining industries in mong the whites led to the ac­
the early years of
settlement, cusation that the Japanese were
their economic activities exten­ ‘‘breeding theselves into posse­
ded to include over 60 occupati­ ssion of a rich share of the bu­
ons in the 20’s.
siness of B.C.”.
Politically, they were stymied
The underlying cause for this
in whichever direction they'tur­ ■wall of discrimination and pre­
ned (it was not until 1934 that judice which faced all immig­
Naturalization was even possi­ rant had been laid years earlier
ble for Japanese). Provincial le­ by the economic impact of the
gislation in 1902 had barred all Chinese, who had been immigra­
Japanese including Issei and Ni­ ting .steadily to , the west coast
sei from voting rights. In fact, of North America lured by the
it disenfranchised all British ci­ Gold Rush» of 1849.. Seen first
tizens of Asiatic origins in B.C. as a limitless source of cheap
In all other provincies, Japane^ labour, the Oriental, through un­
se were allowed to vote. There­ flagging effort and energy un­
fore, they were ineligible to re­ der the worst ‘conditions gradu­
gister and vote in federal elec­ ally came to be regarded as a
tions' as well; thus, they were threat to the white
labourer.
effectively blocked from parti­ This fact only served to add fu­
cipation in city or school board el to the. seemingly endemic pre­
elections, election to provincial judice of white North
Ameri­
legislature, for jury. service, for cans against non-whites, and the
applying for licences in hand­ common knowledge of Japan’s
logging, in law and pharmacy, military , successes in Asia all
where limited enrolment exclu­ served to heighten the already
ded. Japanese ' and any sphere hostile attitude towards Orientof activity which required' that als.x
one be a legal voter on the vo­
At the ’ time of the outbreak
ter’s list.
of World War II in 1939, the
In this manner, . the,, standard
status of the Japanese in Canada
of living was kept forcibly low,
was a still depressing one. The
contributing more ammunition
NISEI, in spite of the fact that
to the argument put forward by
they were born • in Canada and
the whites that the Japanese be
should by this birthright, have
totally segregated and immigra­
the
all the .privileges due to
tion be severely limited becau­
citizen, were lumped
together
se they were a threat to the
with the Issei, both naturalized
progress of the then-developing
and Japanese nationals, as se­
West: the completion -of the
cond-class citizens, discouraged
C.P.R. had led to the burgeoin- j
from improving their lot by acing development of
lumbering ।
j tive white legislation, discrimi­
and fishing; base metal mining |
nated against socially,
econo­
was being developed in the inte­
mically and politically. Of the
rior regions. The threat was not
total Japanese
population of
to progress, but to the position
23,512 officially registered by
of the whites, who did not want
the R.C.M.P. in 1941, Japanese
the presence of an Oriental ra­
nationals numbered 9,758,
Na­
ce who desired to raise themsel­
turalized Issei numbered 7,101,
ves to the same level of'comfort
and the NISEI comprised 6,727.
and security as'the whites enj­
(The remaining 16 were U.S. ci­
oyed. j ,
tizens).
The main' cause for the wo­
rry and hatred of the. white po­
pulation against the
Japanese
lay in the fact that the bulk of
them
were
concentrated in
British Columbia. Twenty-odd
thousand Japanese in a popula­
tion of all 11 million would be
of relatively unnoticably
sig­
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the
fact that 95% of them lived in
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Tuesday, Jun® 18, 1974

Argentina Wants More Japanese
TOKYO. — Argentina' is look­
ing forward to a million more
: Japanese immigrants, newly-a­
ppointed Argentine* Ambassador
Jorge Kawabata, 57,
declared
at’ his first press conference
■May 15 at the Argentine Emba­
ssy in Roppongi.
'

he continued.
“Immigrants from Japan wo­
uld be held in high esteem,” he
added.
- “Argentina wants
Japanese
primarily in the field of agri­
culture, .technicians in steelmak­
ing, water power, harbor constfisheries,
ruction, shipbuilding
etc.
“In. the field of agriculture,
land, housing and farming equi­
pment will be provided the em­
igrants and the government ’ is
ready to buy their produce.”-

The astonished reporters were
told that he had been instructed
to bring back 1,000,000 Japanese
immigrants by President Juan
D. Peron before he departed for
his post. The ambassador of Ja­
panese ancestry was sneaking in . Kawabata’s father hails from
Spanish.
Kazuma, Ishikawa-ken, and his
from
Fukushima-ken.
There are about 30,000 Japa­ mother
nese and their children in Arg­ The ambassador was born
in
entina today, , Kawabata said. Cordoba, graduated from -Buen­
“They are diligent and hard-wor­
os Aires University in law. He
king and get along excellently
with
with the people. They are well- first became acquainted
~
.
behaved and cause no trouble,” Peron in 1950.

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Born To Die"

“KAMIKAZE”
By Allan Beekman
BORN TO [DIE: 20th Century Samurai Who cast Their De­
adly Blossoms on the Southern Seas, by The Hagoromo Society.
Edited by Andrew Adams, tr. by Nobuo Asahi and the Japan Tech
Co., Ohara Publications, Los Angeles, 221pp., paperback, $4.50.
About 2:45 p.m., April 12, 1945, a crippled U.S. destroyer,
Manin ent L. Abele, supporting the invasion of Okinawa, turned its
guns on an approaching Japanese bomber.
The American gunners saw a small plane, which had been
attached beneath the belly of the approaching bomber, break loose.
Diving with such speed, they ihad no time to fire, the tiny plane
struck amidship and exploded, the destroyer sinking within a minute. ' .
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Thus Japan demonstrated the power of its new suicide wea
pon, Ohkai, or Cherry Blossom.
Early in the war, Japanese fliers had crashed on American
ships when their planes were badly damaged or after missing with
bombs. Some Japanese Navy pilots had deliberately crashed into
enemy bombers. When improved Allied defenses rendered Japan­
ese conventional aerial attacks ineffective in October, 1944, Japan
adopted suicide attacks as official policy.

Allied ships had adjusted to suicide attacks from Zero fighter
planes carrying 500 pound bombs and to suicide one-man torpedo­
es. Then had appeared a new suicide plane, Kembu, carrying 1,100pound bombs. Now the most lethal suicide weapon of all, Ohka, had
beien introduced..
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About 18 feet long, with short wings, a fair of plywood and a
fuselage of light metal, Ohka weighted 2.3 tons. It carried 2,800
pounds of explosives in the nose section. Three rockets could push,
it to a speed of 600 mph.
iSince it was without wheels and had a flight range of only IT
miles, a bomber transported the Ohka to the target area. Relea­
sed from an altitude of at least .15,000 feet, the experienced pilot
of the Ohka fired his first rocket and began the glide towards target‘ • •
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With the sinking of Abele, Americans recognized Ohka as the
most formidable. Japanese suicide -weapon. As the Japanese had
hoped, the'Americans came to dread the Ohka that came at them
too swiftly to be shot down. Regarding the plane as the embodi­
ment of the maniacal fury of the Japanese, the Americans named
it the “baka (fool) bomb.”
During the Battle of Okinawa, Japanese suicide attacks lea­
ched their crescendo — 3,000 attacks -— taking a great toll ofAmerican lives and ships. The sacrifice proved vain. Okinawa was'
the last great battle of WW2; four months after the battle had
begun, Japan surrendered.
In 1951 surviving lOhka. pilots formed themselves- into The
Hagoromo Society. Originally limited to surviving Ohka pilots and
the faimilies of the slain Ohka. pilots, the society later included per­
sonnel and families of other branches of the suicide' operation.
While Japanese revered the suicide pilots as demigods during
the war, defeat had changed this adulation to obloquy. Members
of the corps had become identified as “Special Attack degenera­
tes^1”
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Chiefly concerned with the few hundred Ohka pilots who ga­
ve their liyes, the book contains a chronology of the corps, a na­
rrative of its exploits,:reports and tables of American ships sunk.
It also includes poems and farewell letters written by pilots on the
eve of their final flight, comments and reminiscences by their famalies. Some still cling to the wartime idealism; others.have beco­
me embitered.
“What a foolish way to die!” a mother mourns. A. .survivor-wri­
tes, “War is b disgusting thing.”
The book carries many photographs, though some are of poor
quality. Rambling and discursive, the. book, nevertheless, forms
an unusual documentation of the phenomenon of the individual
willingly sacrificing himself for what he conceives to. be for the
good of the nation.

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