Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History Paperback - 2002
by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
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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 these young men's agonies and even defiance against the imperial ideology. Passionately devoted to cosmopolitan intellectual traditions, the pilots saw the cherry blossom not in militaristic terms, but as a symbol of the painful beauty and unresolved ambiguities of their tragically brief lives. Using Japan as an example, the author breaks new ground in the understanding of symbolic communication, nationalism, and totalitarian ideologies and their execution.
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- Title Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History
- Author Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 4th Printing
- Pages 428
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date 2002-10-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226620916 / 0226620913
- Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.98 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.49 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Education and the war, World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations,
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002001067
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.544
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