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One of the listed subjects in the diary was a course called "Spiritual
Moral Lecture," nearly every other day. What exactly was taught in the course is not mentioned.

However it seemed that in some of these courses, great military figures who died for

Japan were mentioned.[38] It is a certainty that this course was one factor in making the pilots feel "happy and proud" to be involved in the Kamikaze attacks.

The military education was quickly absorbed by these young pilots-to- be. It was in

October 1943 that the young boy had entered the Training School. By the next

February, he had written a short poem saying that a Japanese man should be praised when he dies as he should for the Emperor.[39]

The amount of time students spent in the Youth Pilot Training School was reduced from three years to less than two years for the 15th term students.
Therefore, the schedule was tight and tough.[40] There was almost no holiday at all, and many of the planned holidays were canceled.[41] What Corporal Araki called a "holiday" was very much different from what is normally considered a holiday. An example of his holiday started with some sort of ceremony, followed by listening and learning new songs (probably of war), and watching a movie. Something related to the military was taught even on days called "holidays."[42] Therefore, they were given no time to "think."
There was something to do almost every minute that they were awake, and they were taught what the right spirit was. By not giving them time to think, they had no time to evaluate what they were being taught. They just absorbed it, and as a result, by the time they graduated, they were brainwashed.

Corporal Araki had an older brother and three younger brothers. In his will to his parents, he mentioned that he wished two of his younger brothers to also enter the military; one should enter the Navy and become an officer, the other to enter the Army and also become an officer. He also mentions that he wishes that his brothers follow his path (and be involved in the Kamikaze attacks).[43]

Mr. S. Araki, Corporal Araki's older brother, mentioned that his brother had greatly changed after entering the military school. He remembers that his brother's attitude towards him was not casual, and it was not like he was talking to a brother. He felt that he had really grown up since he had seen him last, both physically and psychologically.[44]

There are three references in which Corporal Araki's thoughts towards the mission may be found: his will, last letters, and his diary. In his will to his parents, and to his brother, he mentions that he has no nostalgic sentiments. In his will addressed to his brother, he mentions that he would like him to consider the mission as piety. In a postcard sent on the day of his mission, he calls the mission, "an honorable mission," and that he is looking forward to see them again at Yasukuni Shrine.[45] It was in the end of March

1945, that Corporal Araki's unit's mission was ordered to take place.[46] From just before then, Corporal Araki had not written in his diary. After an entry on March 16, there were no entries for two months. He wrote, because he was busy, there was no time to write.[47] Could that be true? Indeed, his squadron was on a tight schedule for

March. From the 25th, they returned from P'yongyang to Gifu prefecture.[48]

However, Sergeant Kazuo Arai had been able to keep a diary at the time.[49] It may be because of strong personal emotions he just could not keep the diary. Or, it may be that he could care no longer about keeping a diary. In either case the fact that he had not written an entry on the day that the mission was officially ordered, when he had written every other special event down, reveals that he was no longer in the state of mind that he had been.

The planned date of the mission of the 72nd Shinbu squadron (which was the squadron to which Corporal Araki belonged) was initially, May 21, 1945.
However, because of rainy weather, it was postponed to May 27, 1945. In his last diary entry on May 20,

1945, he wrote:[50]

...at ** o'clock I received the thankful command to depart tomorrow. I am deeply emotional, and just hope to sink one (American battleship).

Already, hundreds of visitors had visited us. Cheerfully singing the last season of farewell.[51]

and is cut off there. His handwriting however was very stable, and was not as if he was losing control. If for some reason he had to leave the diary for a while, why did he not go back to it? Was it that he had become extremely emotional that he could no longer write? In any case, he never returned to his diary.

Part Five

In reading the last letters of the Kamikaze pilots, there are generally two types. One, the "Typical" letters and the other, the "Unique" letters. Most of the typical letters were written by graduates of military schools such as the Youth Pilot
Training School. The

"Unique" ones were written by the Special Flight Officer Probationary
Cadets--the graduates from college. The first two of the following five pilots have written a typical letter, and the other three have written unique letters.

Corporal Masato Hisanaga of the 72nd Shinbu Squadron was twenty years old. In his letter, he thanked his parents for the years that he was alive, and reported to them how he had been doing, and informed them of the kindness of the people where he had been. After asking his parents to say "Hi" to various people, he says that he will take revenge for his older brother (who, as it appears, must have been killed in the war) by sinking the enemy's battleship and killing its soldiers. He too asks that his younger brothers follow their brother (himself). "All of the (Japanese) population is the tokkotai." He too mentioned, "I have no nostalgic sentiments."[52]

Corporal Shinji Ozeki, 19 years old wrote a will to his mother saying:[53]

As a man I will courageously go. Now, I have no special nostalgic sentiments. However, I will go regretting that although being born a man, I have not had filial piety.

To give this young self for the protection of the imperial nation, I believe is piety.

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