kamikaze or kami-crazy ?

In Yuki Tanaka’s Japan’s Kamikaze Pilots and Contemporary Suicide Bombers: War and Terror, touches on the use of suicide bombers in the war between United States of American and Japan. Typically, when I have read articles on suicide bombers, it never talks about why the people felt they needed to do that, more so about the causalities.

The main idea of this article is to clarify that kamikaze differentiate from one of a suicide bomber. “Kamikaze attacks were implemented and legitimized by the military regime of a nation-state, while “terrorist suicide bombing” is a generally planned and authorized by organization outside a state structure” (Tanaka 298).

I found this article give helpful insight as to why people sign up for suicide missions.. Tanaka explains that the Japanese Imperial Navy and Army forces had recruited voluntary university and college students. The reason these young adults take their own lives to them was simple, for their country and their people. To die for one’s country showed your commitment and that it was not a total waste. The purpose of this essay is to enhance everyone knowledge on their perspectives on what drives people to participate in suicide missions. A good example of this is, “The announcement of their death as kamikaze pilots in the national press brought raise and honour to their parents, in a particular praise by residents of their local community” (Tanaka 296)

Do you feel that in order to stand for your country and people, in war, the right thing to do is to take aprt in a suicide mission?