The sombre, Japanese-made film Kamikaze lays out the facts and figures - BBC / NHK The idea of Second World War kamikaze pilots as brainwashed fanatics, willingly going to their deaths, is a pervasive ...

It's October 26th, 1942. On the USS Enterprise, alarms pierce the air. Pilots dash towards their F4F Wildcats as the urgent ...

Kazuo Odachi is one of the last living members of a group never meant to survive. He wants to remind Japan that before its modern success came the sacrifices of the young pilots who gave their lives.

Eighty-one years ago today, Lt. Yukio Seki of the Japanese Imperial Navy took off from a dusty east airfield in Barangay ...

On the Pacific front, towards the end of World War II, Japan's imperial armed forces launched 'kamikaze' attacks - suicide missions by aircraft laden with bombs. It was a mad operation with no hope of ...

Over the past 13 years, Tim Taylor and Christine Dennison have scoured the ocean floor using autonomous underwater robots to discover and document the wrecks of seven US submarines lost in World War ...

Any student of 20th century history will tell you that the Kamikaze strikes carried out against allied naval forces during World War II began long after it was clear that the Axis powers could not ...