Languagehat poses a really interesting question...
The Wikipedia entry for kamikaze says flatly that it was not the
Japanese term. [...] I added a [citation needed] tag, but being too
impatient to wait for some Wikipedian to notice and respond, I
thought I'd ask you all: anybody know whether ordinary Japanese used
the term kamikaze during the war or whether it was imported from
ignorant Yanks afterwards?
Can you help answer it?
<http://www.languagehat.com/archives/003197.php>Link
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