The Reluctant Kamikazes Kamikaze Diaries, a new book Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney has revealed that many of Japan's kamikaze pilots were not fanaticals.

Studying the diaries and letters of many of the pilots, who were fresh out of universities, Emiko found that many 'volunteered' for the suicide missions not just from the intense peer pressure but because they could not bear to protect their own lives while seeing their friends and comrades offering up theirs.

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