Kamikaze diaries reflections of Japanese student soldiers - Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko (University of Chicago Press, 2006)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-224) and index
Introduction -- 1. Sasaki Hachiro "What is patriotism? ... the killing of millions of people and depriving billions of people of basic human freedom ...?" -- 2. Hayashi Tadao "All will crumble / Japan will meet its finale" -- 3. Takushima Norimitsu "Why must we fight? We no longer have any purpose for fighting." -- 4. Matsunaga Shigeo and Matsunaga Tatsuki "War is another name for murder ..." -- 5. Hayashi Ichizo "We are assigned the location of our death." -- 6. Nakao Takenori "Am I to simply die without any meaning to my life?" -- Notes -- References -- Index