Ode to a Nightingale
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
A Terre (being the philosophy of many soldiers)Şiir
Sit on the bed. I'm blind, and three parts shell.
Be careful; can't shake hands now; never shall.
Both arms have mutinied against me, – brutes.
Film gibi bir suikast girişimi...Japonya
On the chilly Tuesday morning of March 23, 1976, Mitsuyasu Maeno, a twenty-nine-year-old film actor, arrived with three friends at Chofu Airport on the western outskirts of Tokyo. All were dressed in the style of kamikaze pilots. Maeno, a qualified pilot, told flying club officials that he wanted to rent two aircraft to film a sequence on kamikaze fliers.
Maeno had once idolized Kodama. He was part of a select band of ultranationalists gathered to hear the premiere recital of a proposed new national anthem, "Song of the Race." The anthem, called for "a kamikaze coup d'etat to restore the glories of Imperial Japan." The composer of the song was Yoshio Kodama.
Maeno flew off, followed by his friends, and they proceeded to circle Tokyo in formation for about an hour. Maeno then changed course, telling his cohorts he had some business in Setagaya- a Tokyo suburb and home to Yoshio Kodama. Maeno approached Kodama's house at low altitude and circled twice, shouting the war cry over his radio. Aiming his aircraft nose first, he dove into Kodama's house, smashing into a veranda and dying instantly- but missing his intended victim, who lay in bed in another part of the house.
