[Kyt]

Like Adrian, I can forgive the use of certain archive material for certain purposes. And some of the interviews were interesting. But anyone who has access to UkTV History won't have learnt anything new.

However, my biggest complaint was was that the programme had a very particular agenda, which was laid out from the beginning - that a lot of the Kamikazes were not volunteers, and even seem to imply that the majority of the Japanese, ordinary combatants and kamikazes, were 'brain washed'. Whilst there had been considerable psycho-ideological conditioning, as with Germany, Russia and even to a degree the other Allies, this use of today's sensibilities to examine historical events skews the results.

And I did find the lack of critical analysis of what some of the kamikaze survivors said annoying. Again it seemed to be rather selective to show that the degree of cohersion was greater than may really have been the case. Ugaki's daughter-in-law (or was it daughter?) seemed to be more interested in putting a softer spin on him. It may have been better for actual historian to be used to contextualise his diary entries.

The interview with the designer/builder of the Ohka was another that seemed more concerned with proving the futility in the concept than showing what/why/how the idea was actually conceived.