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Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Takijiro Onishi

Takijirō Ōnishi was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II who came to be known as the father of the kamikaze.

June 2, 1891 - August 16, 1945

Source: Wikipedia

The purity of youth will usher in the Divine Wind. — © Takijiro Onishi

The purity of youth will usher in the Divine Wind.

Takijiro Onishi

Takijiro Onishi

If they (the young pilots) are on land, they would be bombed down, and if they are in the air, they would be shot down. That's sad...Too sad...To let the young men die beautifully, that's what Tokko is. To give beautiful death, that's called sympathy.

Takijiro Onishi

Takijiro Onishi

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