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The Kamikaze Pilots Viewed by a Filipino Boy : Kind-hearted Japanese Who were Engraved in a Boy's Heart

Publisher: Sakuranohana-Shuppansha,


Title Details
  • The Kamikaze Pilots Viewed by a Filipino Boy : Kind-hearted Japanese Who were Engraved in a Boy's Heart
Publishers
  • Tokyo : Sakuranohana-Shuppansha, 2007
Material Type
  • BK
  • Book
Location RHC
Item Call Number RHC-Jap D59 2007
Status Item withdrawn
Barcode RHC-J-2014-0158
Main Entry
  • Personal name - Dizon, Daniel H.
Title Statement
  • Title - The Kamikaze Pilots Viewed by a Filipino Boy : Kind-hearted Japanese Who were Engraved in a Boy's Heart
  • Statement of responsibility, etc. - Daniel H. Dizon
Varying Form Of Title
  • Title proper/short title - Firipin Shounen ga Mita Kamikaze: Osanai Kokoro ni Kizamareta Yasashii Nihonjintachi
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint)
  • Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Tokyo :
  • Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Sakuranohana-Shuppansha,
  • Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 2007
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Media Type
Carrier Type
Summary, Etc.
  • Summary, etc. - "The special attack teams to be called "Kamikaze" took off from Mabalacat airfield in Philippines for the first time in Oct 1944 during the Asia Pacific war. The author spent time with Japanese soldiers including Kamikaze pilots there. This book is his memoire which was written by looking back his experience with them. He praised Japanese soldiers as "noble". He also looks back that "Japanese soldier instructed Filipino Kamikaze spirit with 4 years during the period of Japanese occupation in Philippines and the spirits was a well-educative experience for Filipino." The author who was impressed by Japanese of the day raised "Kamikaze monument" there after the war using at his own expense." - Masuko Takehisa
  • Summary, etc. - 19444年10月、神風特別攻撃隊はフィリピン・マバラカット飛行場から最初に飛び立った。筆者は少年時代にこの地でカミカゼ特攻隊員及び日本軍人と過ごした。この本は、筆者のこの体験を振り返って書かれた本である。筆者は日本軍人を「誇り高い」と称賛する。彼はまた、「日本は、フィリピン占領期の四年の間にカミカゼ精神を教えてくれた。それは、フィリピンにとって最良のものであった」と振り返る。日本軍人の精神的崇高さに感銘を受けた筆者は、戦後、私費を投じ、カミカゼ記念碑を建立した。- Masuko Takehisa