By Adam Platt The New Yorker, May 31 , 1993P. 29 Talk story about "The Winds of God," a play about kamikaze pilots performed by Japanese actors at the Actors Studio's first International Invitational Performance Series.
WASHINGTON — THE government shutdown is the work of the so-called kamikaze caucus of about 40 Tea Party Republicans in the House of Representatives.
And from Hong Kong, we report on the latest in a string of attacks on local media figures perceived to be hostile to mainland China.In our Asia pages, we cover a new Japanese film about kamikaze pilots that has given a worrying boost to nationalists, and provoked predictable fury from China.Our Finance and economics section includes two pieces on China.
REPORTER AT LARGE about Okinowa tells about the Japanese Kamikaze - a special attack force, about its training, which calls for "death simultaneously with a mortal blow to the enemy".
The New Yorker, May 19 , 1945P. 32 REPORTER AT LARGE about Okinowa tells about the Japanese Kamikaze - a special attack force, about its training, which calls for "death simultaneously with a mortal blow to the enemy".
Government propaganda in the United States created an image of the Japanese as monolithically inscrutable, die-hard fanatics of the Orient after lifting the ban in April 1945 on media reports about Japanese Kamikaze missions in the Pacific.
"Kamikaze aircraft, we were warned about then, we were told we had to shoot them down or we'd lose the ship," he says.
Allen has spoken before about his fondness for "kamikaze women", who destroy you in the fallout; Jasmine is cut from the same cloth, yet untroubled by charm.
The message for him in the film, which is about a group of kamikaze pilots attacking American ships at the end of the second world war, was that young men in those times were manly and purposeful in contrast to today's "herbivorous" youth.
