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What was their motivation? Was it religious only or was it purely loyalty to the Emperor/country? What are the differences and similarities of their actions compared to the Islamic suicide bombers of today?
Isnt it similer to Islam? I thought they were promised all these outragus things in the after life as well. By the way I know the word means 'God wind or Divine wind'.
Yeah, it means something like that. Their families were paid well. I guess my question is, if it was loyalty to the Emperor, was the Emperor considered a religious leader for Japan at that time or just a military leader?So far, the only difference I see is kamikazes were more nationalists where Islamic suicide bombers are more for the whole of Islam. (someone can come from Syria and blow himself up in Iraq and still be considered a hero, because they fought the "infidels")
There was a movie I saw many years ago in the '80s which had some storyline associated with kamikazes. I think the name of it was…Empire of the Sun.
This essay http://www.tcr.org/tcr/essays/EPrize_Kamikaze.pdf may shed some light on the subject.Wally
