Half of the comacasi pilots of 19 forty five had been drawn from the ranks of university students. Many were cosmopolitan intellectuals who had been exposed to foreign ideas and influences, including western philosophy and literature. In diaries and letters, many of these future comacasis identified themselves as political liberals and s. Some found much to admire in the american model of society and government. Others harbored radical, utopian, pacifist or even marxist views onuki. Most of them speak multiple languages. Their reading list would shame an english professor. This is these arete very people you look at as the people who are going to have to rebuild japan right? Instead, they