Liutenant Yukio Seki, one of the first kamikaze pilots chosen, said "Japan's future is bleak if it is forced to kill one of its best pilots. I am not going on this mission for the Emperor or for the Empire... I am going because I was ordered to!"
Instead, he thought it'd be better if aircraft could return and be used over and over again. ""If they would let me, I could drop a 500 kilogram bomb on the flight deck of a carrier without going in for body-crashing and still make my way back."
Instead, he thought it'd be better if aircraft could return and be used over and over again. ""If they would let me, I could drop a 500 kilogram bomb on the flight deck of a carrier without going in for body-crashing and still make my way back."