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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1947.

THE FANATICISM OF JAPAN'S SUICIDE-SQUAD AIRMEN MASKED A FEELING OF HOPELESSNESS

NLY very rarely does one

get the opportunity to peer behind the inserut- able eyes of A member of Japan's Kamikaze pilots-those fanatical young men who, during the war, willingly c cepted hopelons suicide flights.

THEY CHOSE THE EASIEST WAY

So you may find enlightenment muscular, (he was the school judo in the extracts I am now able champion), his fellow students gave to publish from the diary of a him the nickname of "Mademoiselle," young Japanese friend of mine because his named. Rintaro Takada. He was minute.

Wo ns

Like many

But

fentures were no effi«

people in Japan's

by

S. CHANG

longed, he was feudalistic in many nearer to me, held my hand in both ways of daily, life.

of his, and looked at me. I win unlike many others of his never forget ose eyes, big and class, Tokuda had many progressive scared.. idens which, I believe, he had

But soon he shook his head, irled required

his study at to mille and, without a word, left reience.

mr. He brushed his way quickly

The stairway people, to catch a train back to a

Brouka

a fellow-student with me in middle-class family, to which he be- Kyoto School where he was studying physics. Eventually we became great friends and before he was killed off Oking

a Kamikaze pilot, he willed his diary to me.

Before they took off on the flights which they knew must end in certain death, these youthfl aterrun would gather together for a fast ceremonial of make together. Slung on sushies around their necks were of en- boxes containing the nehes

ale accidents, and ratles ffect in We had therefore at no chance to zu lese immortality of ro" by suicide nights. The kamikazes, by carrying these at their own deaths belleve they the purified the souls of their friend

drink

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PARADA began his diary the day TAKADA bran, ha dhe un s Naval Air Forer September 6. 1943. o he made his late entry on March 10, 1945 five slag: before re

This is how Impe mal. Heachquarter

in Tulpo announced he death:

-1

in pet'

Rintar Takada took

dive-

T from a certain Kyushu air-hum (Jap Navy's fastest.

twoncafer fugle pred Tumber) in a Speetal Alfsel Flight art attack on Okinawa Cowride Wa confirmed to have been killed 15. 1945, after dolog n March com hlerable damage to an enemy task force. His dirtaaqueled ser- vice....tore!

Majesty's

ear.

That pheare

msiderable lam

20 often used by HQ, and suspicions among Takada's family.

It was 17 open secret by then that no reconnaissance planes were in duty to check the result of the ite attacks, Bomb destruction of Jama's war plants was so hravy that the Mids' fast stall

pop- mdstone * plane, which html cun- firmed the redts of the Kamikaze attacks Leyte late in 1944, was by this time almost ut of produc

lis Frimly sulmits in lay, pilots waging the suicide at- the cover of toks without ཋཱ་°!ཛཱ*!』 fighter escorts were mostly "eulen AWAY

in the thick Allied counter- attack long before they reurbed the tangels which had been "uPoted" them. Takasta was an extremely nasamble young fellow.

lle wat inteligent, hard-work- *DE lari, always good-tempered and was robust,

1.

A

Takori..

smiling. Although

Inose,

with congested

OUT

II

Attended a cremation service in the afternoon.

was carelessness which killed these four filers. Stranke I should feel relieved [15 soon on their nshes RO out of the unit.

November 28: Lecture in the morning by. Captain Sale, about "control over men."

He said that the officers must not

become too friendly with the men, because, otherwise, the whale unit would become democratie. Accord- ing to him, democrney is the greatest en my to us officers. Beenuse t forces us to respect the opinion of ent the majority, thereby innkes it hard us to make resolute decisions white in netual combat.

That was the last me I saw him. I wondered for a long me how for the

He knew, for example, that is Emperor could never be a living God, He bitterly critiched the fanatical nationalis in which then was so pres valent

mong his countrymen. en told me that this fanatacism llen would only leart Jupon to a total

ridiculed destruction. 11 chain of the racial super.rity over

the Allied nations,

But that was at the university: When I met him on his dual teave, which be Wax given two weeks tlor to his last flight, I saw him da a changed man, a fanatic. A fanatic hopelessly eficht in the divinity at dapen and her final victory,

theth'm an an-call shelter in Osaka,

he could have changed drastically, December 1: Why am i not yel

and so quickly.

Hut when, after the war's end his diary reached me, i helved 1 had

the answer.

His diary (blnek

leather-bound one with a lack attached to it), ta me a lot, 1 could see that when he wan chen as a Kamikaze, he 1992- d'ately chose the easiest way out --he Throw away his "reason" and gave himelt away entirely in we torrent of fanaticism to death. FRASE have been the net painless

It was about mat, on a day early way for him to greet his end. in March, 1945, and, fe n the sky. Reep rumbling of B2h reached even

deci

Infor the

we were.

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buament Department Store, where

*ọ van his diary:

It

August 28. 15: Flew all minu fit, and for the hot by night.

Crashed me "e" wide taxiing after Bedding. Exharcted, I caulfn't see that low platform near this Bangor,

ת

In the dim light are hundreds of scared fares, the people gasped, would

not even sercam...They were clad in imiserable raps.

Triadis's face WWW curiously charged. His eyes ware at and be talked

raputy, nervously and motiotoriously.

He talket

of his firm c mostly fatty la Japan's final victory. His renson for this faith was simple. Re wald a Jiyan's rentabing pilots

Kamikaze voluntoured

pilots forever be free from Japan would the invasion of any enemy forers.

THEN

he suddenly changed his tone, hrsgau to talk abog! Toshte san, girt friend, 1e had just left her for the last time.

He said he did not want to shock her, a land kept silence about his msigument of Kamtkoze, Su, as be left her home, she ! <lu him eandidly

when the seeld gap him stat. "Pretty

1

hope he The smiling

tiri bid farewell, saying "Dewa, mata, o'al shimashof (Then, I see you again).

ath werved.

Gut plently of “adjustment” (Jap Navy's slang for beating with hel

both cheeks from the frstruelm Cn. He beats us for his own satis-

pleasure, Those dumned Eta Jina professionals),

October 11; Flow all day today,

With Disgusted completely

my malacrattuess, in diving. After the flight all of us got an adjustment on

chin: a specially big one for each. Somebody had flown too low. My head has bemore funny. The noisé of motor stays stubbornly in my ears.

the

By night. 't feel just don't want to do mything, and ävaste time Just Picea fond,

No letters from home. I wonder what they are doing?

October 29: Again that foolish dis erimitation between Eta Jima (18

utar navy) oflcers and us, the con- selat offleurs.

Only the Ela Jima chaps get

day of Why shound they make sach discrimination? I'm completely disgusted with the Navy,

November 22: Flew for the firm time in a Cominet aireraf.

"Then, I'll me you again." He the game phrase to me. mumbled and tonicer desperately into my eye, We talked for about 1 honpa like this, when the siren of "All pilot, I think its kgs are a bit too Clear" blew. Suddenly he come went

k; was fast af right, hat, as

The Not Very Bad Old Days

GUESS the place and period

to which this rolers:- "City of smiles, the habita tion of wealth, of pence, of security and of power.....com. arious that it was the centre of the whole world, that it called

the inne."

Tree had a bad habit of for- getting his lines. A callboy was put in the orchestra pit with a blackboard hearing the lines he was apl to forget.

But at the next performance Tree dried up again. He had to go to the prompt corner.

The stage manager whisper-

1

prepared to get killed?

3

for

Why don't I volunteer Kimikaze? No, I just can't do it,j Many of us already have valunteer ed and got killed only. What on earth am I dog Can't i die unlit i um forect to?

DEC

POCKET CARTOON

STAR

* What!-you don't like

my new kilt length?"

WAY

BY THE

by Beachcomber

INCE the House of Lords

has been rofusing to act as rubber-stamp for the House of Commons, the Government, I learn, is considering how to put an end to the reactionary habit of discussion and investigation.

(from One suggestion

Charlie Suet) is that every Socialist member that should

by

become a

peer, and be passed

| jegistation should

DECEMBER 18: Nakis by B26s the nint and aftermMON, Twenty "Zmost look off to inter- eupt, but could not get even furto which these peers would still sit in ketive tank with them. Japan ise Commons, only moving into the adrendy "up".

Lords en masse to prevent tiresome I have never felt so presimistic as clovernment defeats. Today There ciner agerior to gur. In front of such Marginal note superiority, Kamikaze attacks would

only log childish,

Is so much

SPEECH made by a Government what Cle- apologist recalli That Japan will be defeated. Then, menceau said of Jaures. "You can always spot an article by him. All what can I do as a pilot oflicer? don't know, I only knew that don't the verbs are in the future tense." want to get killed,

For the Arst time I rolle clearly A

January 1, 1945 My comrades because I don't y I'm coward "biy wom."

They will never understand me. I know that coutage doesn't count in such matters,

Tibetan

Moonflower (XIV.) Never I was Mr Mince's hour.

had he seen her in more yield-

ing mood. "Duncan." she breathed. January Flew il day today,

"My prairie 11250, responded the Both Formosa and Okinawa look

spellbound bureaucrat, And as she like being beaten up completely by estled in his arma, listening for the

the enemy.

When think of how little we signal on the wall that would an- euld do in Leyte, I'm too sure whatnounce the merchant (or the land-

January 6: Thet movement ordere Coally rame,

"But

We

their

will happen there. Oh pessimismer), he began to picture

life together in Carshalton. "It will and pessinéem!

different from this," he said.

be Shati

together murmured the entrancing beauty. said alince. Kaugh, knock went Moompl on the wall. It grows late, and must consider my supertation,"

Sliding Dingi-loos.

hur through.

and four other comrades were ordered to riport to Kalori Air Haze bit of almond blossom," 47 miles east of Tokyo. (This base

weed for a while to train special by the Kamikaze pilots of Japan's Navy and Army,

WAN

ין 'וי

both

Takada

a

chosen on this day an Korikaze pilal).

Well it

has

come!

she pushed

Buld

hack a panel,

But

Moompi was gesticulating frantically.

again, And on his The Brat was Eghams back

heels the merchant. The footling Bought which flashed through myel nurse had just time to push

hend-The

Die

is Cast. (Takada old

Mince into a linen-cupboard and put wrote this in English!.

Kateri Egham in a larder. She then show- January 15: Arrived t where I saw more army plance than the merchant in to Dingi-Poos

and the landowner arrived. She have ever seen before.

linen- Lo the shouted Mince.

Went to the Naval Officers' club transferred Eaham in the evening. There were quite apard. "You"

"You!"" roared Egham. of few beautiful gelsha-girls. Onc

them looked just like Kogure (30-

panese film actress Michiyo Kogure, Lady Cabstarleigh

Shuchiku Cinema Company).

life

ان

may dedicate my virginity to THE brolonged absence from social Lady Cabatanleigh has A voice yelled, "Gorn to the der What's the-use-of-keeping my been-cemmented on. I-understand son disappear that she has been living in retire-

I

virginity? I

must

podreine." where's little

A moment later, as Fagin, he said, from this world.

Oliver?" "Gorn took for Little Nell," came the chorus of the "poda.”

$12

MARCH

ment while certain alterations to her. face were being carried out. Like many other landowners, she found 10 (last entry): I don't that this was the only kind of altera- know what to write.

tien she would be allowed to make without applying for licences from

is varicus Departments. "It own face, anyway," she said. "Or mostly," she added, lingering an ad- dition to her nose.

Arthur Bourchier was once booed. Back in his dressing-room he found Can't control my thoughts at all. his faithful dresser missing.

Within 30 minutes I'm taking off for The man when found said frankly Kyushu and then...... he had been in the gallery-booing. Japan Is absolute.

Yes, London, of course. Ed- wardian London. Those were great days of the theatre, and ed a reminder of the blackboard. "In this room I am your servant," the great man of the theatre "know, I know," said Tree, was the actor-manager.

"but he's holding it upside

And they were great charac- down.” ters, the actor-managers, Stories about them are legion. Some of the best have NOW. been collected.

Claude Rains

The callboy, by the way, was Claude Rains,

#

Each moment is so precious, he said. "In the gallery I atti

Want terribly to ste my parents and Toshic-sm. member of the pubile."

For

me, the reminiscence is the Some things don't change. For whole life. example, there Is the story of Let me live as long as possible in Vedrenne, under whose management the memory of Toshic-580, Ty the first Shaw plays were produced. friends, and parents,

While "Milestones" was in produc- tton Vedrenne became gloomier and It was of Tree's Hamlet that loomer. He was convinced it a critic (surely W. S. Gilbert, would be a flop, and disagreed with Mr Pope?) said it was "funny author with Arnold Bennett) insisted

everything Edward Knoblock There was Beerbohm Tree

without being vulgar." proud majestically

of "My

on. He left a rehearsal in dis- Alfred Bull was a manager, not gust, telling Knoblock he had ruin- beautiful theatre"-His an actor. One of the great moments ed the play.

of his reign at the Palace was when Majesty's.

"From "Carriagra at Eleven" (Hutchinson, 218.), by W. Macqueen

Pope.

A Bad Habit

he brought Pavlova to London.

She was a sensation especially

A triumph

Once during a performance the night her partner dropped her The first

of "Henry VIIL" a man was and she got up and slapped his Vedrenne, all smiles "What did seen in the front row of the face,

At

night was a' triumph.

The social

every- tell you?" he demanded of changes of the years body. stails reading a newspaper, hetween are astonishing. "Leave him to me," said Tree.

A young actor and a young netress Command the Arst. Royal Towering in the scarlet robes variety show the ladies of the royal from musical comedy became stars the in "Milestones." Their names were of Cardinal Wolsey, Tree swept party averted their eyes, from

Owen Narcs and Gladys Cooper.. to the footlights, knelt down, sight of a woman la trousers-Vesta

1917 But what will make the Tilley, and said. "Tell me what won Yet one of

days reader more envious of those the two-thirty "

than anything else are Mr Pope's tales of the music hall-when at the Tivoli whisky was threepence, beer twopence, elgarettes twopence- in penny for len, and a good elgar

S. W.

The culprit quickly stuffed the newspaper in his pocket. Tree rose and pointing at the man, said to the audience, "He 'doesn't know."

NANCY

those ladies. Qucen

Mary, has lived to see such alghts for away from the theatre.

Even the big names had their mis- res. When Pelissier's Follies were the pets of the town, Morris vey tried a Dickensian scene which threepence, began, "Where's little Nell?"

It Pays, to Hypnotize

I WANT TO PRACTISE MY HYPNOTISM---

AW--DON'T BE SILLY, LET'S GET SOME ICE CREAM

BOOLA ZAM

I'LL HAVE A FIFTEEN- CENT SUNDAE

ABBA DABBA

ME, TOO

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Is le HASH" "It's hush," sold the waitress.

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