Just before the collision it is essential that you do not shut your eyes for a moment so as not to miss the target. Many have crashed into targets with wide open eyes. They will tell you what fun they had. – Albert Axell: Kamikaze.
PETER JACKSON
IN TOKYo

The words sound like the introduction to a crashcourse in how to tackle a larger opponent and revel in the delight of bringing him to his knees. Instead they come straight out of the instruction manual for the deadliest pilots of the Japanese Imperial Air Force of the Second World War, the tokkah-tai-in.
The man who did more than an...