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Takijiro onishi biography channel He graduated from the 40th class of the Imperial Japanese Navy Academy, ranked 20 out of a class of cadets in He served his midshipman term on the cruiser Soya and battlecruiser Tsukuba and after he was commissioned an ensign , he was assigned to the battleship Kawachi. As a sub-lieutenant, he was assigned to the seaplane tender Wakamiya , and helped develop the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service in its early stages. He was also dispatched to England and France in , to learn more about the development of combat aircraft and their use in World War I. After his return, he was promoted to lieutenant , and assigned to the Yokosuka Naval Air Group from to

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Rear Admiral Ōnishi Takijirō ()
Native name	大西瀧治郎
Born	()2 June Tamba, Hyōgo, Japan
Died	16 August () (aged 54) Tokyo, Japan
Allegiance	Empire of Japan
Service/branch	Imperial Japanese Navy
Years of service	–
Rank	Vice Admiral
Commands held	Sasebo Naval Air Group, 2nd Combined Air Group, 1st Combined Air Group, 1st Air Fleet, Vice-chief of Navy General Staff
Battles/wars	Second Sino-Japanese War World War II

Takijirō Ōnishi(大西瀧治郎, Ōnishi Takijirō, 2 June – 16 August ) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II who came to be known as the father of the kamikaze.

Early career

The Japanese aircraft mother ship Wakamiya, from which the world's first ship-based air raids against German positions in Tsingtau were flown

Ōnishi was a native of Ashida village (part of present-day Tamba City) in Hyōgo Prefecture.

He graduated from the 40th class of the Imperial Japanese Navy Academy, ranked 20 out of a class of cadets in He served his midshipman term on the cruiserSoya and battlecruiserTsukuba and after he was commissioned an ensign, he was assigned to the battleshipKawachi.

As a sub-lieutenant, he was assigned to the seaplane tender Wakamiya, and helped develop the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service in its early stages.

He was also dispatched to England and France in , to learn more about the development of combat aircraft and their use in World War I. After his return, he was promoted to lieutenant, and assigned to the Yokosuka Naval Air Group from to He continued to serve in various staff positions related to naval aviation through the s, and was also a flight instructor at Kasumigaura.

After his promotion to lieutenant commander, Ōnishi was assigned to the aircraft carrierHōshō on 10 December as commander of the carrier air wing.

He became executive officer of the aircraft carrier Kaga on 15 November He was promoted to rear admiral on 15 November and chief of staff of the 11th Air Fleet.

Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi in the cockpit, wearing flight gear.

World War II

From the left, Deputy Chikanori Moji, Yoshio Kodama, and Lieutenant General Takijiro Onishi.

In February , at Tainan Shrine in Taiwan.

Early in the Pacific Campaign of World War II, Ōnishi was the head of the Naval Aviation Development Division in the Ministry of Munitions and was responsible for some of the technical details of the attack on Pearl Harbor in under the command of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Ōnishi had opposed the attack on the grounds that it would lead to a full-scale war with a foe that had the resources to overpower Japan into an unconditional surrender.

Biography channel ghost kit Jennifer J. When conventional tactics became ineffective, Japanese forces resorted to suicidal forms of attacks. Takijiro Onishi, Japanese admiral with the Imperial Japanese Navy, formed the Special Attack Force and recruited volunteers called Kamikaze to carry out these suicide missions against American anti-aircraft ships and aircraft carriers. Masayuki Matsumuro, former Kamikaze pilot, sat down with students from Matthew C. Perry High School here March 19 to share his experiences and how one day changed his perception about Americans.

Nevertheless, his 11th Air Fleet had a critical role in the operations in attacking American forces in the Philippines from Japanese-occupied Taiwan.

On 1 May , he was promoted to vice admiral. As an admiral, Ōnishi was also very interested in psychology, particularly in relation to soldier's reactions under critical circumstances.

In , he had published a book on the subject: War Ethics of the Imperial Navy.

After October , Ōnishi became the commander of the First Air Fleet in the northern Philippines. Following the loss of the Mariana Islands, and facing orders to destroy the US Navy′s aircraft carrier fleet in advance of Operation Sho, Onishi changed his position and ordered the attacks.

Takijiro onishi biography channel 7 He graduated from the 40th class of the Imperial Japanese Navy Academy , ranked 20 out of a class of cadets in He served his midshipman term on the cruiser Soya and battlecruiser Tsukuba and after he was commissioned an ensign , he was assigned to the battleship Kawachi. As a sub-lieutenant, he was assigned to the seaplane tender Wakamiya , and helped develop the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service in its early stages. He was also dispatched to England and France in , to learn more about the development of combat aircraft and their use in World War I. After his return, he was promoted to lieutenant , and assigned to the Yokosuka Naval Air Group from to

He addressed the first kamikaze unit and announced that its nobility of spirit would keep the homeland from ruin even in defeat. After his recall to Tokyo, Ōnishi became Vice Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff on 19 May

Just before the end of the war, Ōnishi pushed for continuing the fight and said that the sacrifice of 20 million more Japanese lives would make Japan victorious.

Death

Yoshio Kodama was a witness, but subsequently unable to bring himself to commit seppuku.

He also stated that he would offer his death as a penance to the kamikaze pilots and their families. Accordingly, he did not use a kaishakunin, the usual second who executes by beheading, and so died of self-inflicted injuries over a period of 15 hours.

The sword with which Ōnishi committed is kept at the Yūshūkan Museum in Yasukuni Shrine, in Tokyo.

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The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia. Japanese Navy. Via Wikimedia Commons. Onishi Takijiro was born in Hyogo prefecture and graduated from the Naval Academy in He was an early advocate of air power and became an ace in China during the s.

Ōnishi's ashes were divided between two graves: one at the Zen temple of Sōji-ji in Tsurumi, Yokohama, and the other at the public cemetery in the former Ashida Village in Hyōgo Prefecture.

In film

The Japanese actor Tōru Abe portrayed Ōnishi in the film Tora! Tora! Tora! (uncredited).
Ōnishi was also portrayed in the Toei production Saigo no Tokkōtai (最後の特攻隊, directed by Junya Sato), The Last Kamikaze in English.
Toei produced a biographical film in , Ā Kessen Kōkūtai (あゝ決戦航空隊, directed by Kōsaku Yamashita), Father of the Kamikaze in English.