What should the modern world make of a collection of letters by young Japanese Kamikaze pilots - as gathered and perserved by an aged former pilot in the "special attack" squadrons? [...]"Kamikaze" - it is a word that has become synonymous with all that is crazy, fanatical and self-destructive. I remember as a young schoolboy in Britain learning about the kamikaze pilots. To me, what they had done was inexplicable. For long afterwards, it coloured my view of Japan, and it left me with a nagging question: how did it happen? What caused thousands of ordinary young Japanese men to volunteer to kill themselves?"