THE DESTINY OF KAMIKAZE

These guys were going to certain death, like it was a great holiday for them, sacrificing their lives for their motherland. They were flying up to the sky, having left their landing gear back on the concrete runway, leaving never to return: a dazzlingly white scarf, a ritual gulp of sake and then – a spectacular death. They pounced upon the allied ships, and there was no escape from these live bombs. The Japanese kamikazes - so they went down in the history of the World War II. Who were these people? Why was staying alive for them worse than death itself? Nowadays in Japan there are ex-kamikazes living out the rest of their lives. Being injured or taken captive, they were unable to perform their kamikaze duty to the end. And this has made their life an anguished existence…