Kami-Kaze Volume 5

Kami-Kaze Volume 5

Author: Satoshi Shiki

Publisher: TokyoPop

Published: 2007-06-12

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781595329288

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In a world facing war, Kamuro falls into the horrific memories of his childhood. He must learn from the past in order to survive the present. Meanwhile, Misao shares her true mission with Higa concerning the Kegai no Tami: are they as wicked as everyone believes?


Kami-Kaze Volume 1

Kami-Kaze Volume 1

Author: Satoshi Shiki

Publisher: TokyoPop

Published: 2006-02-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781595329240

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Released from a thousand-year imprisonment, 88 demons return to present-day Japan, where a band of young warriors takes up the fight against the evil creatures. Rated for older teens.


Kami-Kaze Volume 7

Kami-Kaze Volume 7

Author: Satoshi Shiki

Publisher: TokyoPop

Published: 2008-02-12

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781595329301

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Shikone, one of the Beasts, has been sent by Otoroshi to attack Tokyo Bay. Back again, Otoroshi has been resurrected by the Kegai no Tami, but his powers have not fully returned. Human weapons are no match for him as he ventures out into the city, and with this, the worse is yet to come. Older teens/mature readers.


Kamikaze Biker

Kamikaze Biker

Author: Ikuya Sato

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1998-06-20

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780226735283

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In this firsthand account of high-risk car and motorcycle racing in Japan, Ikuya Sato shows how affluence and consumerism have spawned various experimental and deviant life-styles among youth. Kamikaze Biker offers an intriguing look at a form of delinquency in a country traditionally thought to be devoid of social problems. "Ikuya Sato's Kamikaze Biker is an exceptionally fine ethnographic analysis of a recurrent form of Japanese collective youth deviance. . . . Sato has contributed a work of value to a wide range of scholarly audiences."—Jack Katz, Contemporary Sociology "A must for anyone interested in Japan, juvenile delinquency and/or youth behavior in general, or the impact of affluence on society."—Choice "The volume provides a sophisticated . . . discussion of changes happening in Japanese society in the early 1980s. As such, it serves as a window on the 1990s and beyond."—Ross Mouer, Asian Studies Review "Kamikaze Biker is a superlative study, one that might help liberate American social science from the simplistic notion that behavior not directly contributing to economic productivity should be summarily dismissed as 'dangerous' and 'deviant.' "—Los Angeles Times Book Review


Blossoms in the Wind

Blossoms in the Wind

Author: M. G. Sheftall

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2023-05-09

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0593472322

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A revelatory and groundbreaking account of Imperial Japan’s kamikaze—the suicide pilots of World War II—as told through the eyes of the survivors In the final year of World War II, a horrific new weapon was unleashed in the Pacific: the kamikaze. Idealistic, young Japanese men had been taught that there was no greater glory than to sacrifice one’s life to defend the homeland. Now, with the war all but lost, thousands of these determined warriors were hastily trained in the basics of piloting an airplane, then sent out in waves to crash into enemy warships, suicide attacks that killed altogether some seven thousand American sailors. But what of those men who took the sacred oath to die in battle and lived? In the wake of 9/11, ethnographer M. G. Sheftall was given unprecedented access to the cloistered community of Japan’s last remaining kamikaze survivors. As an American fluent in Japanese, Sheftall was the only westerner to ever sit face-to-face with these men and hear their stories. The result is a fascinating journey into the lives, indoctrination, and mindsets of the kamikaze, through the eyes of participants who are now lost to time.


Kamikaze

Kamikaze

Author: Steven J. Zaloga

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-09-20

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 1849083541

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The destruction of much of the remainder of the Japanese fleet and its air arm in the later half of 1944 left the Japanese Home Islands vulnerable to attack by US naval and air forces. In desperation, the Imperial Japanese Navy proposed using “special attack” formations, or suicide attacks. These initially consisted of crude improvisations of conventional aircraft fitted with high-explosive bombs that could be crashed into US warships. Called “Divine Wind” (Kamikaze), the special attack formations first saw action in 1944, and became the scourge of the US fleet in the battles for Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945. In view of the success of these attacks, the Japanese armed forces began to develop an entire range of new special attack weapons. This book will begin by examining the initial kamikaze aircraft attacks, but the focus of the book will be on the dedicated special attack weapons developed in 1944. It also covers specialized suicide attack weapons such as anti-tank lunge mines.


Kamikaze

Kamikaze

Author: Yasuo Kuwahara

Publisher: American Legacy Media

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0976154757

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The classic World War II autobiography describes the horrors of war and the author's brutal training and experiences as a kamikaze pilot.


Kamikaze Girls

Kamikaze Girls

Author: Novala Takemoto

Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

Published: 2013-04-09

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 142156307X

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Momoko is a Lolita stranded in the boondocks of rural Ibaraki prefecture, although she'd much rather be living in the Palace of Versailles. Ichigo is an impulsive member of a girls-only biker gang who firmly believes in honor, loyalty, and fist fighting. Together this unlikeliest of duos strikes out on a journey to find a legendary embroiderer who might just be able to make their dreams come true. Inspired by the cult-classic novel by the same name, this exclusive manga edition of Novala Takemoto's Kamikaze Girls contains several brand new stories, including a continuation of Momoko and Ichigo's misadventures that was approved by the author himself! -- VIZ Media


SAGUS Vol 5

SAGUS Vol 5

Author: Roy Thomas

Publisher: Graham M Thomas

Published: 2015-01-07

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13:

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Roy Thomas served in the Royal Navy, principally in the British Pacific Fleet. Using his history and records, a unique insight into his life during this time has been pulled together including the time he was in Occupied Japan.