Masao Kanai died on a kamikaze mission near Okinawa in 1945 aged 23. Japan created a program to encouraged students to support the imperialist military by writing letters and he had been pen pals ...

25, 1944, the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps were sent ... as he sent his will to his family at the end of the month along with a letter pledging to do his duty to honor his parents.