Wings of Defeat at Embassy

Aaron Gerow aaron.gerow at yale.edu
Fri May 2 14:39:09 EDT 2008


The discussion of Yasukuni has toned down on KineJapan, but I noticed  
that the mailing I get from the Japanese embassy featured a screening  
of Wings of Defeat, the film by Risa Morimoto (and produced by Linda  
Hoagland), about the kamikaze. Although this film is definitely  
critical of wartime Japan, it has not encountered the problems  
Yasukuni has:

http://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/jicc/JapanNow/EJN_vol4_no6.htm#tokko

Aaron Gerow
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Yale University
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