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| • | .]] Kamikaze (&#-2071;&#-1880;) is a Japanese word, usually translated as "divine wind" ࢀ&#-2912;which came into being as the name of a legendary typhoon said to have saved Japan from a Mongol invasion fleet in 1281. In Japanese, the word kamikaze is usually used only for this typhoon. In the English language, kamikaze usually refers to suicide attacks carried out by Japanese aircrews against Allied shipping towards the end of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Air attacks were the predominant and best-known aspect of a wider use of — or plans for — suicide attacks by Japanese personnel, including soldiers carrying explosives, and boat crews (see Japanese Special Attack Units. In Japanese, the term used for units carrying out these attacks is tokubetsu kōgeki tai (&#-347;&#-3547;ঔ&#-218;&#-2941;ਗ਼&#-3543;, which literally means "special attack unit." This is usually abbreviated to tokkōtai (&#-346;&#-2757;ਗ਼&#-3543;. In World War II, suicide squads that came from the Imperial Japanese Navy were called shinpū tokubetsu kōgeki tai (&#-2071;&#-1880;&#-347;&#-3547;ঔ&#-218;&#-2941;ਗ਼&#-3543;, where shinpū is the of the same characters that form the word kamikaze. Since 1945, the word kamikaze has been applied (or misapplied) to a wider variety of suicide attacks, in other historical contexts. Examples of these include Selbstopfer in Nazi Germany, suicide bombing in Israel by some Palestinian nationalists and the September 11, 2001 attacks. Source: [wikipedia: kamikaze] |
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