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Watch the full story here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?=Luc83G92WRc
Young and blossoming men thrown to the carnage. This is the story of an extraordinary sacrifice from one family. This, is the story of the first ever official Kamikaze; the story of high school girls who helped the Kamikaze pilots. And the story of what it's like to cruise above enemy ships, the sky laden with anti-aircraft fire, men ready to "scatter" like Sakura petals by the wind.
The obsession that had gripped the Japanese people to die willingly for the Empire is best described in an incident involving a Lieutenant named Hajime Fujii. After serving as an infantry officer in the Army, he switched to the Air Force. In the late war, he volunteered three times to join the Kamikaze operation but was always rejected on the grounds that he was a family man, with a wive and two daughters under his care. One night when he came home, he discovered a letter from his wife. It reads: "I know that because of us, you cannot exert your utmost for the country. Therefore, allow us to take leave of this world before you join us. Please fight with nothing weighing on your mind". Astounded, he began searching high and low. The next morning, the police informed Fujii that his wife and two children had been found, and recovered from the Arakawa River. The mother had tied the two kids tightly around her, then drowned herself in the river. The depressed husband cried profusely as he wiped sands from the feet of her deceased wife. Then, five months later, his wish fulfilled, Hajime Fujii led a 9 plane Kamikaze unit, eager to join his family in the afterlife.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?=Luc83G92WRc
Young and blossoming men thrown to the carnage. This is the story of an extraordinary sacrifice from one family. This, is the story of the first ever official Kamikaze; the story of high school girls who helped the Kamikaze pilots. And the story of what it's like to cruise above enemy ships, the sky laden with anti-aircraft fire, men ready to "scatter" like Sakura petals by the wind.
The obsession that had gripped the Japanese people to die willingly for the Empire is best described in an incident involving a Lieutenant named Hajime Fujii. After serving as an infantry officer in the Army, he switched to the Air Force. In the late war, he volunteered three times to join the Kamikaze operation but was always rejected on the grounds that he was a family man, with a wive and two daughters under his care. One night when he came home, he discovered a letter from his wife. It reads: "I know that because of us, you cannot exert your utmost for the country. Therefore, allow us to take leave of this world before you join us. Please fight with nothing weighing on your mind". Astounded, he began searching high and low. The next morning, the police informed Fujii that his wife and two children had been found, and recovered from the Arakawa River. The mother had tied the two kids tightly around her, then drowned herself in the river. The depressed husband cried profusely as he wiped sands from the feet of her deceased wife. Then, five months later, his wish fulfilled, Hajime Fujii led a 9 plane Kamikaze unit, eager to join his family in the afterlife.
