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	Takijiro Onishi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Early in the Pacific Campaign of World War Two he was the head of the Naval Aviation Development Division in the Munitions Ministry and was responsible for some of the technical details of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, under command of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.
		Onishi himself opposed the attack on the grounds that it would lead to a full-scale war with an implacable foe who had the resources to overpower Japan into an unconditional surrender.
		Takijiro Onishi committed ritual suicide (Seppuku) in his quarters on August 16, 1945, following the unconditional surrender of Japan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Takijiro_Onishi (293 words)

	Kamikaze pilots
		In February 1944 the staff officers believed that even though they were far from the Americans in the number of aircraft, skilled pilots, soldiers, battleships and natural resources such as oil, they were above the American for the amount of soldiers who were willing to risk their lives than to be defeated.
		Admiral Onishi received permission from the Minister of the Navy to enter Clark air base and begin to command the first organized suicide attacks.
		Onishi didn’t yet believe that the suicide attacks would be a good tactic, but he did believe it to be a successful battle tactic and thought of it as the best way for the soldiers to die.
	www.info.tampere.fi /a/amuri/tyot/Kamikaze1.htm (950 words)

	Kamikaze
		By extension, during World War II the word came to be used for desperate suicide attacks, particularly by aircraft assigned to destroy US and Allied ships by flying directly into them.
		Japan had lost any pretext of having competitive fighters by 1944, and were hardly able to service them, so expending them as bombs was suggested by Admiral Takijiro Onishi[?] in October 1944[?].
		Vice Admiral Onishi[?] (大西) was assigned to Manila on October 17, 1944.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ka/Kamikaze.html (1510 words)

	The Alpha: Pearl Harbor, 1941 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Soon thereafter, he proposed to Fukudome to address the issue to Rear-Admiral Onishi Takijiro, Chief-of-Staff of the 11th Air Fleet, whom he wrote a letter in December, at about the same time that the Naval General Staff began to draw up its plans for operations against the Dutch.
		Genda returned to Kaga, returning to Onishi two weeks later with a study elaborating on what Genda thought were the main problems, the necessary tactical emphasizes, in five points.
		Onishi's part was the safe movement of the Task Force, which plans he added to Genda's air plan, and submitted to Yamamoto in March.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/special/history1.htm (3783 words)

	halfwaymag.com » Magazine Archive » Tokkō, Not Terrorist
		The idea, championed by Vice-Admiral Takijiro Onishi, was to strap a 250kg (approximately 550lbs) bomb on a Zero plane and crash it into an enemy ship.
		That was the birth of the kamikaze attack that sacrificed thousands of lives of a generation of Japanese males as young as fifteen years old.
		Takijiro Onishi (creator of the tokkō-tai) did just this at the end of the war.
	www.halfwaymag.com /archives/2005/09/01/tokko-not-terrorist (1582 words)

	The Perilous Fight . The Kamikaze Threat \| PBS
		The pilots needed little training — takeoffs, but no landings — and a sacrificial dive-bomber would be hard to shoot down.
		Ironically, the kamikaze —; and the sacrificial philosophy behind them — were one of the reasons President Truman decided to drop the atomic bombs.
		On the eve of the Japanese surrender, Onishi Takijiro committed suicide, leaving a note apologizing to his dead pilots because their sacrifice had been in vain.
	www.pbs.org /perilousfight/psychology/the_kamikaze_threat (386 words)

	Thunder Gods and Kamikazes
		In October, 1944, as the Thunder Gods Corps was officially coming into existence, Vice-Admiral Takijiro Onishi requested permission to use bomb-laden fighters in a "Kamikaze" offensive at his new command in the Philippines.
		An emotional Admiral Onishi immediately announced the supposed "crushing success" of the new method and told the combined officer corps of the First and Second Naval Aviation fleets that the kamikazes would be used to sweep the Allied fleets from the sea.
		On August 14, Admiral Onishi, one of the pioneers of the Kamikaze program, told a close friend; "It was not I who lost the war, but the Emperor." That evening he committed ritual suicide.
	wtj.com /articles/kamikaze (4159 words)

	DYING FOR THE EMPIRE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This statement by "The Father of the Kamikaze." Japanese Navy Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi brought it home for this writer.
		Admiral Onishi was the man who came up with the idea of Kamikaze pilots.
		Thus, Admiral Onishi was leading his troops to defend against imperialism and potential slaughter of innocent people by the U.S. Military, as in his mind factual history showed that the U.S. would kill as many as necessary and even more in order to get what it desired.
	www.worldnewsstand.net /05/Ed_Lewis/46.htm (1819 words)

	Kamikaze, Japanese Suicide Bombers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Admiral Takijiro Onishi, created a Special Attack Groups of suicide dive-bombing pilots known as "kamikazes".
		More than 2,000 kamikaze missions were flown against the US fleet at Okinawa between April to July, 1945.
		Admiral Takijiro Onishi, committed suicide on news of Japans surrender.
	www.paralumun.com /warkamikaze.htm (111 words)

	The Voice of Russia [ XX CENTURY: FOOTPRINTS IN HISTORY ]
		That was how the Kamikaze strike force was formed led by Admiral Takijiro Onishi a ruthless warrior and one of the authors of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
		Because the forms had the name of the respondent printed in, refusal to become a suicide was tantamount to admitting one’s cowardice.
		Admiral Takijiro Onishi, the founding father of the kamikaze movement, after seeing all his desperate attempts to ward off his country’s imminent defeat fall through and hearing the Emperor’s decision to capitulate, performed a hara-kiri.
	www.vor.ru /English/Footprints/excl_next880_eng.html (684 words)

	Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Gods (Albert Axell)
		Even civilians were caught up in the glory of suicide: Fumiko Fujii drowned herself and her two daughters in December 1944 so that her husband could join the kamikaze corps, which wasn't then accepting family men.
		The man who planned and organized the kamikaze was Adm. Takijiro Onishi, who walked the walk, committing ritual suicide within hours of Japan's surrender.
		It would be nice to think that Onishi was inspired by remorse, but it seems to have been pique: The government had ignored his appeals to continue the fight.
	www.warbirdforum.com /axell.htm (911 words)

	Dispatch Archive
		The commander of the First Japanese Air Fleet at Manila, Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi, the officer who had developed the concept, was pleased beyond measure with the first day of the "divine wind."
		These suicide attacks continued up to the last day of hostilities, with the Japanese Vice Admiral who commanded the kamikazes on Kyushu, Matome Ugaki, supposedly flying the last kamikaze mission of the war.
		Vice Admiral Onishi, the originator of the idea, committed ritual hari-kiri rather than surrendering.
	rwebs.net /dispatch/output.asp?ArticleID=49 (974 words)

	Onishi Takijiro - Onishi Takijiro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	WW2DB: Takajiro Onishi
		Takajiro Onishi led the Naval Aviation Development Division in the Munitions Ministry early in WW2.
		He was not proud of this decision, knowing young men, mostly university students, would lose their lives under this tactic; however, he felt that he had little choice given the situation of the war.
		His suicide note expressed his personal apology for sending Kamikaze pilots to their deaths and urged the people of Japan to follow the lead of the Emperor for a peaceful occupation.
	ww2db.com /person_bio.php?person_id=170 (394 words)

	Axis History Forum :: View topic - Kamikaze
		After the fall of Saipan in July, 1944, Admiral Takijiro Onishi, commander of 1st Air Fleet in the Philippines, created the Special Attack Group of suicide dive-bombing pilots known as kamikazes.
		Kamikaze pilots continued to be active until the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
		Admiral Takijiro Onishi, the commander of the Special Attack Group, committed suicide when he heard that Emperor Hirohito had surrendered.
	forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=68056 (1415 words)

	Kamikaze
		After the fall of Saipan in July, 1944, Admiral Takijiro Onishi, commander of 1st Air Fleet in the Philippines, created the Special Attack Groups
		Young men were inspired to volunteer as they wished to die for their country.
		Kamikaze pilots continued to be active until the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWkamikaze.htm (298 words)

	Muslimedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although they are frequently disparaged as drug addicts or brainwashed drones, in fact these men went willingly to their deaths with a sense of purpose and self-sacrifice.
		The kamikazes were created as a special attack force by Admiral Takijiro Onishi after the fall of Saipan in July 1944.
		Young Japanese men who wished to die for their country volunteered as pilots, and they were specially trained to fly modified fighter planes at very low altitudes.
	www.muslimedia.com /archives/special03/suicide.htm (2134 words)

	[No title]
		By organizing the "Tokkotai," they thought it would also attack the Americans psychologically, and make them lose their will to continue the war.[12] The person who suggested the Kamikaze attack at first is unknown, but it is often thought to be Admiral Takijiro Onishi.
		However, Onishi was in the position to command the first Shinpu Tokubetsu Kogekitai rather than suggest it.[13]
		Onishi once said, "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.
	www.4455.ru /humanities/99962.htm (5953 words)

	Hiroo Onoda Procure Basic Absolute Wisdom Concerning Hiroo Onoda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The reports were reminiscent of WW2 straggler Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, who believed the war was still on when he was found in the jungles of the Philippines in 1974.
		List of people associated with World War II Vice Admiral in the Battle of Savo Island Kichisaburo Nomura, Admiral Takijiro Onishi, admiral Hiroo Onoda, (born 1922), post-war straggler Jisaburo Ozawa, Vice-admiral and commander of Japanese Mobile...
		Staff Chuichi Nagumo (1886-1944), Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Admiral Takijiro Onishi, admiral Hiroo Onoda, (born 1922), post-war straggler Jisaburo Ozawa, Vice-admiral and commander of Japanese Mobile...
	lineage2lt.makelineage2.com /hirooonoda (1169 words)

	Key Issues: Nuclear Weapons: History: Post Cold War: Smithsonian Controversy: Draft-Final 2
		Vice Admiral Takijiro Ohnishi, who orchestrated the formation of the kamikaze corps, hoped that the suicide attacks would enable Japan to overcome the material superiority of the Allies or at least salvage a spiritual victory for Japan.
		Called kamikaze (divine wind or wind from the gods) the attacks took their name from a typhoon that destroyed a 13th century Mongol invasion fleet before it could reach Japan.
		Takijiro Onishi, who helped create the kamikaze corps, hoped the suicide attacks would enable Japan to overcome the Allies' military and industrial superiority or at least salvage a spiritual victory for Japan.
	www.nuclearfiles.org /menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/history/post-cold-war/smithsonian-controversy/enola-gay-exhibit-draft-final-unit-2.htm (10158 words)

	Kamikaze - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The task facing the Japanese air forces seemed totally impossible.
		The 1st Air Fleet commandant, Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi decided to form a suicide attack unit, the Kamikaze Special Attack Force.
		Commander Asaiki Tamai asked a group of 23 talented student pilots, whom he had personally trained, to volunteer for the special attack force.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kamikaze (2508 words)

	History
		As Naval Aviators from many carriers began to soften up Japanese Naval Land based airfields on Kyushu, the desperate acts of the Kamikaze menace began to unfold, especially as the carrier task forces moved towards the Ryukyu island chain.
		Admiral Takijiro Onishi had initiated the concept of the Kamikaze in the Philippines, realizing it was the only way to stop invading fleets.
		At Kyushu nearly 4,000 planes (including Kamikaze) were assembled to protect the islands of Japan from invasion.
	dwp.bigplanet.com /bootstrapaircraft/history1/view.nhtml?profile=history1&UID=10024 (1681 words)

	Kamikaze: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The First Air Fleet commandant, Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi (Takijiro Onishi: takijiro onishi 1891—1945 was a japanese general with a especially romantic...
		[follow hyperlink for more...]) decided to form a Kamikaze Special Attack Force; Onishi became known as "the father of the kamikaze".
		Commander Asaiki Tamai (Asaiki Tamai: asaiki tamai was a commander in the japanese army in world war ii....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/kamikaze (2407 words)

	Air Classics: Super corsair! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The nine young pilots wore the traditional hach#naki scarf wrapped around their heads, Samurai warriors once wore these headbands to keep their long hair out of their face during combat.
		The pilots had taken last rites before the mission and had been told personally by the arrogant Admiral Takijiro Onishi (a prominent figure in the Pearl Harbor sneak attack of 7 December 1941) that "You are already Gods without earthly desires!"
		The pilots attacked four American escort carriers that were launching aircraft to protect the Leyte beachhead.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3901/is_199911/ai_n8864060 (1413 words)

	Torpedo Squadron Four - USS Essex Takes a Kamikaze
		"But it was not until Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi arrived in Luzon--just before the American landing at Leyte--to take command of Fifth Base Air Force and learned he had fewer than a hundred operable planes that the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps was officially organized."
		"Onishi's kamikaze group was created specifically to support Kurita's raid on Leyte Gulf, and the first attack had come earlier that morning.
		Six suicide planes and four escorts took off from Mindanao at 6:30 a.m.
	www.airgroup4.com /book/chapt-12.htm (1716 words)

	Shyster
		I suppose it would be easy to knock this guy because he nearly flunked out of law school.
		And because he seems to employ the sort of trial strategy that only Takijiro Onishi could appreciate.
		But rather than do that, I link to this story for a more noble purpose: to remind myself that, no matter how freaking bad my life may seem at any given time, all in all, things aren't that bad.
	shyster.blogspot.com (2097 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Worlds collide when an upper-class writer takes refuge among the denizens of a seedy flophouse in this directoral entry from Genjirou Arato, longtime producer for Seijun Suzuki and Junji Sakamoto.
		'Thru me you pass into the city of woe,' reads the cheery flboard welcome at Amagasaki Railway Station, and such is the case for recent arrival Yoichi Ikushima (Takijiro Onishi), who quickly lands a room in a boarding house filled with end-of-the-line prostitutes, the dying, and the walking dead.
		With Takijiro Onishi, Shinobu Terajima, Michiyo Okusu, Yuya Uchida.
	www.berkeley.edu /cgi-bin/events.pl/ZOOM/17935 (1539 words)

	OpinionJournal - BOOKSHELF
		Occidentalism, the authors say, is not only an Islamist trait.
		By the authors' definition, Adolf Hitler was an Occidentalist, as was Leo Tolstoy--along with those more obviously deserving of the label, such as Vice Adm. Takijiro Onishi, the "father" of kamikaze tactics, and (today) Osama bin Laden
		Hitler, Tolstoy, Onishi and bin Laden may well all be the "same" at some level, but one must inquire how useful is an exercise that would seek to bind together these disparate people (and their milieux).
	www.opinionjournal.com /forms/printThis.html?id=110004922 (676 words)

	interdisciplines : Understanding Suicide Terrorism : Genesis and Future of Suicide Terrorism
		Rather, the state was apparently able to manipulate a deep intellectual and aesthetic tradition of painful beauty to convince the pilots that it was their honor to “die like beautiful falling cherry petals” for their real and fictive families, including parents, fellow pilots and the emperor and people of Japan.[4]
		When collectively asked by Adm. Takijiro Onishi to volunteer for “special attack” (tokkotai) “transcending life and death”, all stepped forward, despite assurances that refusal would carry no shame or punishment.
		In the Battle of Okinawa (April 1945) some 2000 kamikaze rammed fully fueled fighter planes into more than 300 ships, killing 5000 Americans in the most costly naval battle in U.S. history.
	www.interdisciplines.org /terrorism/papers/1 (7410 words)

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