Therefore, Japan increased the kamikaze program ... as Japan became more desperate, a new plane was put into production: the Kugisho MXY7 Ohka "Cherry Blossom" 22 The cherry blossom is ...

The Japanese word “kamikaze” means “divine ... warbirds designed from the ground up as suicide planes such as the MXY-7 Ohka (“Cherry Blossom”). But what’s not as well known to most ...

MINAMI-KYUSHU, Kagoshima Prefecture--Chino Kuwashiro recalled how her legs trembled as she saw off young kamikaze pilots almost 80 years ago, waving a symbolic cherry blossom branch. In spring ...