For her own book, author Ruth Ozeki drew from \u201cKamikaze Diaries,\u201d a collection of writings left behind by the young soldiers who died on suicide missions. They represent a generation of brilliant, highly educated young students who were conscripted into the army and ordered not just to kill but to die.
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