Mori Juzo was a torpedo bomber pilot of the Imperial Japanese Navy and one of the aviators who participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1973, Juzo wrote his autobiography…

It’s Christmas Eve and though just early evening, the dim light of winter is long receded, replaced by the orange vapour darkness of an urban night. Outside my house a Canadian hibernal front descends

As early as the summer of 1944, Japanese Army and Navy fighter and bomber pilots began training for “special attack” suicide missions against both Allied ships and aircraft. Known as kamikazes…