Japan: why this renewed interest in suicide bombers?

Christian Kessler is the author of two reference works on the subject, Japanese Kamikazes in the Pacific War (1944-1945) (Economica, 2018) and Japanese Kamikazes (1944-1945) - Writings and Lyrics (Free of write, 2018).

Japan is now questioning the pacifist constitution imposed by the Americans in 1946. Prime Minister Abe has made it a focal point of his program. The economic development of China and Korea - these despised neighbors - is experienced in Japan as a haunting humiliation. Also Tokyo is no longer forbidden, in agreement with the Americans, but which under the presidency of Donald Trump give the impression of less reliable support, to step up militarily in the face of the skyrocketing budget of the armies of China and to the threat from North Korea. China and the two Koreas do not hesitate, for their part, to regularly incriminate the war crimes of the imperial army during the Second World War in order to put Japan

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