Kamikaze

During World War II, the Japanese developed a strategy called Kamikaze, in which young pilots sacrificed their lives by crashing their planes into enemy ships. The goal was to destroy capitalism in Japan and gain victory. The tension between the United States and Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor led to this desperate measure. The pilots were mostly in their early 20s and had little training. The Japanese government influenced Kamikaze and saw it as a way to defend their country. However, the plan was a failure and resulted in the loss of many lives. The rebellion and determination of the Japanese pilots were fueled by their love for their country. The events of Kamikaze were one of the most tragic and important in World War II. The impact of this strategy on society and the emotional toll on the parents of the pilots cannot be understated. The government's rushed attack on Okinawa was in response to the US and Allied forces' resistance. The Japanese believed that death was prefer The battle was one of the bloodiest in the Pacific War, claiming the lives of more than 12,000 Americans and 100,000, including the commanding general, was on both sides. Stated by an article published by Britannica, a large encyclopedia platform. On this episode of Alvin's podcast, I will discuss the origin of kamikaze and connect it with rebellion. Kamikaze was one of the major losses Japan has suffered. The tension between the United States and Japan grew sufficiently after their attack on Pearl Harbor. After the United States faced a devastating loss to Japan, there was a huge sense of tension and rebellion. The soldiers that risked their lives were really brave. They risked their lives to fight for their country. On a website published on History on the Net, the article would state that the majority of kamikaze pilots were young men in their early 20s. I found this to be very interesting because I feel like nowadays there's a lot of similarities as to how it is now and how the system works. A lot of US soldiers would automatically be enlisted as soon as they turned 18, and I feel like it was the same way for Japan during that time. During this time, I think that Japan also ran a draft in which determined the role that these soldiers would play. I feel like this is extremely emotional and just overwhelming for the parents of these young men who were fighting for their country. I really wonder how they really felt and reacted to their children being involved in kamikaze during World War II. With little to no training on how to function an airplane, the Japanese were more in danger and held more pressure than those soldiers in the US right now. During this podcast, I will discuss a lot about the origin and the effect kamikaze had on society. In my opinion, I feel like it was one of the most important and tragic events that took place in the midst of World War II. There's a lot of key points I want to mention with all of the important information and research I found in this podcast. I feel like there's a lot to learn from this event. There were a lot of events that happened during World War II. The majority of them ended in lots of blood and gore. I decided to annotate a few sources, my first examining how Japanese pilots would risk their lives and fight for what they believed in and for their country. In the book Kamikaze Cherry Blossoms and Nationalisms, Emiko Onuki Teriyani would describe the pilots as suicide bombers. Teriyani would additionally say that they were willing to sacrifice their lives to destroy capitalism in Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom for their dream phoenix to rise out of the ashes. Saying that their goal was to fight for their country and defend themselves as best as possible. The goal of this attack was to destroy enemy ships by crashing their planes into naval ships which led to a lot of deaths. The book gave the audience an understanding and a brief description about the pilots and how the Japanese government influenced Kamikaze. The audience would provide a lot of context and information about how and where Kamikaze took place during World War II. Sources of information of where the author gathered their information and their organization helped the reader's audience understand where the information is and how it's interpreted. For my second annotation, I found a source where the writer would describe and give context as to the role of the Japanese pilots and how they were during World War II. In an article published by DEMI, Japan's Last Bid for Victory, the author would state that American and allied soldiers and marines fighting island by island frequently met with stiff resistance including suicidal attempts to kill them, more than small or large numbers. This demonstrates how the Japanese developed a plan in which they would take their lives for their country. The goal of this mission was to bring peace to Japan and to kill as many people as they possibly could by crashing their planes into large numbers of people. It was Japan's attempt at mass destruction to cause chaos as a way to gain peace. This demonstrates the rebellion in the Japanese government and U.S. government had that resulted in this action. With the attack on Okinawa, the Japanese didn't know how to respond which led them to a huge loss. It was basically the U.S. response to an attack that Japanese had on Pearl Harbor. DEMI would further elaborate that suicide charges were other means of achieving death to be preferable to surrender, basically stating that Japanese weren't going to give up without a fight. They were determined and they were going to fight by any means because many soldiers were lost and the plan was a complete failure. To break all the sound, there were a lot of events that happened during World War II. The majority of them ended in lots of blood and gore. During my research, I came across a variety of important sources that I discovered, some being the goal of Kamikaze, how Kamikaze came about, and what were the goals of the Japanese pilots and their determination to fight for their country. With all these topics in mind, I found a common topic that revolves around all of these, which were the mindset and the determination of the Japanese pilots. The mindset that these Japanese pilots had and also the sense of rebellion that they have with the United States. Some similarities I found with these sources were that Japanese pilots would take pride and demonstrate their love for their country. In the articles, Japan's last bid for victory and the Japanese contribution to violence in the world, both articles would discuss about terms like suicide mission and suicide charges as a way to discuss the goals of these Japanese pilots and how Kamikaze was implied as. These sources would go hand in hand and build off of each other with the similarity it has in the way the writer produced their writings. For example, in the article, Japan's last bid for victory, the author would talk about how Kamikaze came about and how the attack on Pearl Harbor, they resulted in the attack in Okinawa, which resulted in Japan attacking in an unplanned manner, which seemed really rushed. In Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms and Nationalism, the author would discuss the mindset of the pilots and how they were willing to sacrifice their lives for the country. Examining all of these articles, I felt like these soldiers knew that they were going to die sooner or later based on this event. With these two articles, I found that the author would research different part of Kamikaze and that these sources were very different and similar in many ways. These articles helped me build a foundation for my research question and sum up the overall goal of the Japanese pilots. I found a lot of important sources that helped me gain a better understanding of what Kamikaze was and where it took place. From the articles I read, I concluded that the overall goal of Kamikaze was for the Japanese to risk their lives to take more lives. This master plan came to a complete failure and a huge loss to the Japanese. Japan, however, wasn't going to give up without a fight. This plan that they had to attack a naval ship was Russian and therefore came to a huge loss. The whole purpose of this attack was to destroy capitalism in Japan by attacking the United States. They thought that attacking them out of nowhere was a good idea and that attacking them out of nowhere would lead them to victory, but it was the complete opposite. Throughout my research, I found myself asking more questions and my questions shifting. What would these Kamikaze pilots do? What they wanted to do? And what they wanted to do? Were these soldiers initial reactions to being selected as being suicide pilots? To answer these, I feel like these soldiers wanted to play a heroic role, fighting for their country and for their loved ones. They were very brave, especially because of how young they were and not many people were going to do it. The sources that I found, however, are very crucial to my topic. They provide a lot of context as to what has happened and the cause and effect of the war. To further expand on my research, my goal is to try and get in contact with family members or relatives that experienced this event. My goal is to even go as far as to find movies or documentaries related to this event that may help expand on my research further on. Even before this event, during the bombing of Pearl Harbor, it caused more and more tension between the U.S. and Japan. Overall, I feel like the government in Japan didn't really develop a good solution for developing Kamikaze. It took a huge toll on a lot of lives that can't be taken back. A lot of parents of the lost soldiers faced a lot of grief as well. The rebellion and tension between the U.S. and Japan really led to this event because if any of them were going to attack any moment, which led to Japan's rush attack resulting in a huge failure.