How is suicide bombing justified by a divine breeze? The word for 'suicide bombing via crashing your plane into something'(which most people will use in a broader sense that drops the plane from the equation) as seen done by the Japanese during WWII is , who's kanji translates to 'Divine/God's wind'. Could someone explain the etymology of this to me. What exactly does 'Divine wind' refer to? How was it meant to help justify this suicide mission to the men who did it? And is it connected to the State-Shinto they had at the time?

There were two typhoons that saved Japan) from mongol invasions under Kublai Khan in the 13th century, and were thus named "divine wind" (). The pilots in WWII were supposed to be "divine wind", similar to the typhoon, saving Japan from other invading enemies.