The Documentary Podcast
The Documentary Podcast
BBC World Service
The Last Kamikazes
27 minutes Posted Nov 7, 2017 at 6:00 am.
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Mariko Oi meets two of the very last surviving men to have been trained to fly their airplanes straight into enemy ships, ensuring certain death. Ninety-one-year-old Keiichi Kuwahara says “I kept looking back, thinking that it was the last time I would see the land. And as I was doing so, the sun came out and made the horizon shine light pink. And I thought that I have to go in order to defend this beautiful land. That was what I told myself.”