kamikaze 1945

Is Japan Risking War to Save the US-Japan Alliance?
Forbes
China's likely response, or was it a deliberate, desperate, almost kamikaze-like lunge to save the U.S.-Japan security alliance? I believe that it was the latter. That Japan—and here I mean not just the Japan Democratic Party (DPJ) Noda cabinet, but ...

kamikaze

Pronunciation: /ˌkamɪˈkɑːzi/

noun

• (in the Second World War) a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.
• the pilot of a kamikaze aircraft. 神風特攻隊員

adjective

[attributive]

• relating to or denoting a kamikaze attack or pilot: a kamikaze attack
• reckless or potentially self-destructive:he made a kamikaze run across three lanes of traffic  / kamikaze congress

Origin:

Japanese, from kami 'divinity' 神+ kaze 'wind'風, originally referring to the gale that, in Japanese tradition, destroyed the fleet of invading Mongols in 1281