Kamikaze diaries emiko ohnuki tierney biography

Japanese-born anthropologist

Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (Japanese: 大貫恵美子 born 1934) is a noted anthropologist and the William F. Vilas Professor of Anthropology^[1] at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

She is the author of fourteen single-authored books in English and in Japanese, in addition to numerous articles. Her books have been translated into many other languages, including Italian, Korean, Polish and Russian.

Kamikaze primary source

“We tried to live with percent intensity, rather than waiting for death.

Letters from kamikaze pilots

Professor Onuki-Tierney uses exerpts from the diaries of six remarkable young men.

Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney is the William F. Vilas Research Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Ohnuki-Tierney was appointed the Distinguished Chair of Modern Culture at the Library of Congress in DC in 2009 and then in 2010 Fellow of Institut d’Études Avancées-Paris. She is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, its mid-west council member, and a recipient of John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship among other prestigious awards.

Education

A native of Japan, born in Kobe 1934. Ohnuki-Tierney received a B.A. degree from Tsuda College in Tokyo and came to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship. Her interest