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" Kamikaze, cherry blossoms, and nationalisms : "
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney.
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995074
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b749444
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Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko.
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Kamikaze, cherry blossoms, and nationalisms : : the militarization of aesthetics in Japanese history /\ Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney.
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2002.
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1 online resource (xvii, 411 pages) :: illustrations
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0226620689
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0226620905
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0226620913
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9780226620916
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-399) and index.
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| Contents
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The symbolism of cherry blossoms in pre-Meiji Japan -- The road to pro rege et patria mori: naturalization of imperial nationalism -- The making of the tokkōtai pilots -- Nationalisms, patriotisms, and the role of aesthetics in Méconnaissance.
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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.
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College students-- Japan.
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Kamikaze airplanes.
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Kamikaze pilots.
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Social sciences.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Aerial operations, Japanese.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Education and the war.
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College students.
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HISTORY-- Military-- World War II.
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Kamikaze airplanes.
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Kamikaze pilots.
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Military operations, Aerial-- Japanese.
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Social sciences.
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War and education.
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Esthetica.
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Nationalisme.
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Piloten.
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Symbolisme.
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Tweede Wereldoorlog.
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Zelfmoordaanslagen.
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Japan.
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| Dewey Classification
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940.54/4952/0922
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D792.J3O26 2002eb
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