KAMIKAZE

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                    [Title] => Bitter memories of WWII revived in Pampanga, but war tourism booming
                    [Summary] => MABALACAT, Pampanga (AP) — Though just 7 at the time, Faustino Arceo vividly recalls the dogfights between Japanese and American pilots over the lush volcanic hills of the northern Philippines.


Now 68, it’s hard for the toothless gardener to forget. He makes his living cutting grass and planting flowers around a life-size statue of the first kamikaze pilot, who took off from an airfield here in October 1944 as part of Japan’s desperate attempt to turn the tide against the advancing Americans.


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                    [Title] => Japanese peace advocates recall lessons from ‘kamikaze’
                    [Summary] => MABALACAT, Pampanga — Japanese peace advocates are arriving here this weekend to recall the lessons from World War II, specifically from the "kamikaze," the corps of Japanese suicide-bombing pilots who, from 1944 to 1945, launched a total of 2,940 attacks that sank 26 US ships. 


The kamikaze was born in this town, on Oct. 20, 1944 when Japanese Admiral Takijiro Ohnishi founded it with 23 volunteers from the 201st Air Group of the First Air Fleet of the Imperial Nippon Naval Air Force under Commander Asaichi Tamai. 


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                    [Title] => Pampanga town commemorates birth of ‘kamikaze’
                    [Summary] => MABALACAT, Pampanga —  History descended anew upon this town yesterday as Japanese visitors, led by Buddhist Bishop Ekan Ikeguchi, joined the commemoration of the 56th anniversary of the birth in Barangay San Francisco here of the "kamikaze," the suicide attack units of the Japanese imperial forces which took action against American forces starting in Leyte in October 1944.


"It was the largest suicide organization in world history," said prominent historian Daniel Dizon, 70. 


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Bitter memories of WWII revived in Pampanga, but war tourism booming

August 12, 2005 - 12:00am

MABALACAT, Pampanga (AP) — Though just 7 at the time, Faustino Arceo vividly recalls the dogfights between Japanese and American pilots over the lush volcanic hills of the northern Philippines. Now 68, it’s...

Headlines

Japanese peace advocates recall lessons from ‘kamikaze’

By Ding Cervantes | October 23, 2003 - 12:00am

MABALACAT, Pampanga — Japanese peace advocates are arriving here this weekend to recall the lessons from World War II, specifically from the "kamikaze," the corps of Japanese suicide-bombing pilots...

Nation

Pampanga town commemorates birth of ‘kamikaze’

By Ding Cervantes | October 26, 2000 - 12:00am

MABALACAT, Pampanga — History descended anew upon this town yesterday as Japanese visitors, led by Buddhist Bishop Ekan Ikeguchi, joined the commemoration of the...

Nation