ABSTRACT
Tourism relating to the Special Attack Corps (Tokkōtai), or kamikaze, is concentrated in Kyushu, where many of the bases from which suicide attacks were launched are located. This chapter focuses on the different tourism experiences at the sites of four former Imperial Navy bases: Kanoya, Kushira, Izumi, and Usa. The management of these sites, the types of learning experiences possible at them, the motivations tourists have for visiting, and their responses to their engagement with Tokkōtai history show considerable variation. Tokkōtai sites exemplify a narrative world encompassing the three tourism imaginaries of (subjective) war experiences, (objective) war heritage, and war-related entertainment.
