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07/09/2007: "Japanese rediscover valor of kamikazes"

But for an increasingly bold cadre of conservatives, kamikazes symbolize something else: just the kind of guts and commitment that Japanese youth need today.

Long a synonym for the waste of war, the suicidal flyers are now being glorified in a film written by Tokyo's governor, Shintaro Ishihara, a well-known nationalist and co-author of the 1989 book "The Japan that Can Say No." And a museum about the kamikazes in the southern town of Chiran, near the airstrip where Uchida and others took off, gets more than 500,000 visitors a year.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070708/ap_on_re_as/kamikaze_glorified