One way the Japanese decided to counter the threat was by using pilots known as kamikaze, which means "divine wind," to fly planes directly into ships. In a culture that embraced the idea of ...

Japan’s war situation from then on only grew worse. By autumn 1943, the idea of a kamikaze squadron had been floated by a small circle in the military, according to a military history ...

Together, these storms are known as kamikaze ("wind of the gods"), a term that would take on a more sinister definition during World War II when Japanese pilots carried out suicide attacks.

At age 16, he joined the Imperial Japanese Navy’s preparatory pilot training course and became a special unit member in October 1944. After seeing the first kamikaze unit swing into action off ...

There was one certainty about being a kamikaze, he says: “You go, and it’s over.” He survived only because Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender on the radio as he was his way to ...

Despite numbering just 4000 out of more than 2 million Japanese deaths in World War II, kamikaze pilots hold an outsized place in the public consciousness. Alamy Stock Photo Books and films are ...

The Japanese word “kamikaze” means “divine wind.”In a military history context, the term was first applied to a force of Mother Nature that saved Japan by destroying Kublai Khan’s would ...

A bomb disposal team from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force later confirmed that the explosion was caused by an American ...