28 days ago · Japan
Crouching dragons: the suicide divers Japan never sent to war
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a conflict story. South China Morning Post Asia is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to Japan. The first report grouped here was at 19 Sept 2026, 01:30 UTC. The headline in use is “Crouching dragons: the suicide divers Japan never sent to war”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Japan’s wartime kamikaze pilots remain among the most recognisable symbols of the Pacific war: young men flying aircraft into Allied ships on missions from which they were not expected to return. Far less well-remembered are the fukuryu – suicide frogmen trained in the closing months of World War II to…
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Crouching dragons: the suicide divers Japan never sent to war
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