MINAMI-KYUSHU, Kagoshima Prefecture—Treated as “gods” for sacrificing their lives to protect their country and their families, kamikaze pilots have inspired generations of Japanese in the postwar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Think of a kamikaze pilot and the image that comes to mind is probably a screaming face obscured by goggles embarking on a death ...

CHIRAN, Japan — These are the dusky days of old age that kamikaze pilots like Shigeyoshi Hamazono were not supposed to see. Three times during the final months of World War II, Japanese officers sent ...

MINAMI-KYUSHU, Kagoshima Prefecture--Chino Kuwashiro recalled how her legs trembled as she saw off young kamikaze pilots almost 80 years ago, waving a symbolic cherry blossom branch. In spring 1945, ...

MINAMIKYUSHU, Kagoshima -- The son of a late former Mainichi Shimbun photographer who captured young Japanese kamikaze pilots before their suicide attack missions in the final phase of World War II ...

Smiling at the camera dressed smartly in their military uniforms, this group of Japanese women could just as easily be any group that proudly served their country during the Second World War. Except ...