Japanese History and Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections on Japanese Student Soldiers. She has continued to work on the question of "aesthetic" (broadly defined), ubiquitous in wars of all types, from "tribal warfare" to conflicts between nation-states. This is done against the basic theoretical question of communicative opacity—how people fail to recognize the absence of communication. Ohnuki-Tierney's most recent book is titled Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces (2015). References External links The Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin Select articles available for download Excerpt from Kamikaze Diaries Interviewed by Kalman Applbaum and Ingrid Jordt on 30 April 2011 (video) See also Japanese culture University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty American anthropologists American women anthropologists Japanese anthropologists Japanese women anthropologists Living people University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Tsuda University alumni 1934 births American women academics 21st-century American women