Word: takejiro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. General Korechika Anami, Army bureaucrat and War Minister in the Suzuki Cabinet; and Vice Admiral Takejiro Onishi, originator of Kamikaze ("divine wind," i.e., suicide) tactics; both by harakiri, induced by the Japanese surrender; in Tokyo...
Vice Admiral Takejiro Onishi, who was apparently elevated for the suicide from vice chief to chief of the Navy general staff, left a note to the "spirits" of his Kamikaze corps: "With my death I desire to make atonement to the souls of ... you who fell gallantly as human bullets. ... I also have a message to the young men at large. . . . You are the treasure of the nation. Attend properly to your peacetime circumstances. . . . Maintaining steadfastly the spirit of the Special Attack Corps, do your utmost for the revival of the Japanese race...
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