>> particularly since the argument and those are anonymous samples that can never be tracked back to the person. but of course now we do have the ability to find a persons identity using dna. it's not something that done very often but it's technically possible. the 10 years from now at this anonymous cells are going to tell you about a person, no one can imagine that. but also just beyond that, there's a sticker issue of just people want to know what's being done with their dna and tissue there have been lawsuits over this and i talked to a lot of people involved in across-the-board this is the same thing, which is what the lacks family says as well. if they asked us, we would've said yes. don't want to inhibit science. people understand this is important research. is that after the fact that this has been done with the tissues they don't have know about, they're being commercialized,, that's that they get angry and start yelling like something that is going on.

the macarthur other henrietta lacks out there? >> in a lot of ways there's billions of them, we just don't know what their names are, what their stories are. one of the interesting things that happened since the book came out as i've been getting e-mails from scientists. the scientists response to the hela story is really incredible. there is so many scientists who work with herself everyday and have their whole careers and never saw to ask where they came from or they learned that they came from or donated from a woman. and one of the things that's been happening as i've been getting these e-mails from scientists and thank you for the story, if you support that with the from and i worked a lot with line. are you aware that came from a advising getting all these e-mails is this thing please tell me about this outline them what the story is. if you go to the solving of the week and i felt you can scroll through the catalog will say things like-year-old african-american male disorders such as or 12-year-old caucasian

female side of lymphoma. the sometimes you get these little snippets of their stories, but nothing beyond that. and a lot of scientists are sorted out they to that person get patient? probably not. and what do we know about them. so the story at henrietta lacks is this window into these other syllables. >> you see a broader book on the horizon? >> no. no, i don't think you could. i mean, the thing that's different about henrietta story bothers other people is that her name was released. so we know who she is, but yeah, privacy concerns would keep you from other releasing the names of any of those other cell lines or anything like that. so yeah, they're sort of know -- they're pretty of my friends is a great night of spend the rest of your life writing books about each of the cell lines. i said no, i'm not. and really the stories would not be the same because part of what they do henrietta lacks story so

amazing and sort of impactful is what happened after the cells were taken. it's really in a lot of ways about the family and the aftermath of the cells. which did happen to anyone that is nobody else got a phone call thing your mother's house are still led 25 years after she died and went to research on you. so a lot of the stories would have been after. >> this book is really taken off. when the booktv producer bob mentor editorial meeting to discuss it, the whole group said what is the story? we have to know the story. >> which is the same reaction i had when i first heard it. and this is one of things people often say. aren't you shocked that people are responding to the book the way they are and i just blown away to see this book, a science book of cells in "the new york times" bestseller list? it's like writers really are supposed to say they imagine something like this could happen, but it doesn't surprise me because i had the exact same reaction among us is having.

it's a basic facts of the stories are so incredible. you hear them and just go with? i have to know what happened in to tell people about that. and a what i said when i heard it. circulate to what taken off is very much about the story and the fact that the furthest thing because it's the facts of the stories people are responding to. >> where do you live, what's your day job in word you to grow up? >> i live in memphis, tennessee. having teaching at the university and the faculty of the creative writing program. i grew up in portland, oregon and have lived in lots of places. i was to undergraduate school in fort collins, colorado democrats going to birkenau lived in new york are at a moved around a lot. >> why biology class what interested you about biology class

>> is actually free to the vast countryside is one of those kids was completely obsessed with the most time i was five i was going to be a veterinarian. so i was attack about that is as good as he you do for you if you are is that he is a good or if you have is that it is as good as he is to live in a universe with her. a lot of that has to do is because henrietta has on. 's constant presence in my life. >> rebecca skloot is the author,

have is a good to read the rest of the anthropology the university of wisconsin in madison and she has written another book. this one is sensitive. professors have heard the term kamikaze come from? >> it originate when the mongols is to invade japan and they were going to rid the land in kyushu and that's pumping.

and all their ships are all returned. japan has saved so to speak. and therefore, they as you preach your your when the nation into characters because they're usually followed issued in japan. >> and what does that mean? thing, but just different enough japanese military start to use the term coffee. or is that an english term that we use? it has have any particular operation it was not emission is

a very are you is as good as a word you or is what you are

and they did not have a choice, but quote unquote volunteer. >> so not truly volunteers is what your research has shown? >> that's right. >> and so i went to the diaries and it was not what is going feel they should he should have do you know about the. i will. and that he very much of a catchphrase winifred kuester patriotism. then other times they said that's not my true so there's a tremendous interest in processes

whether ambivalence and vacillations and all of that, but none really do are the emperor, neither did they die willingly. >> how were they trained in and how were they chosen? >> well, in the first place, they were drafted. they didn't have any choice. nosedive you do you think there is is and one of the members with me. and he is with in a hallway and from time those who do not want to go to where you want to volunteer staff.

in the, in replenishment analysts. who are difficult than to say that i'm going to do in you. you can know. so many of them volunteered unwillingly. if they are to you do if you are and is defined as is your is a we are with him but then it won't do as he and to be just for you. so when i started to contact

ben, i was afraid that they may not even give me the permission, but in fact they became enormously grateful that i'm introducing to the internet. >> what myths do we have about kamikaze pilot that you dispelling your new boat? >> i think there's a tremendous myth that 9/11 they started to say that the kamikaze pilots were the role motter for the jihadist and there was very difficult for them to learn relate to and it was very scared for people who really risked their lives. and you see the thing is that the americans, germans, they'll told the soldiers to kill the

enemies. but then this particular symbolism of cherry blossoms given to the japanese soul is to die. >> now, explain the cherry blossom connection because you do for cherry blossoms on the front of your book also. were they given to the pilots? >> know, what happened is that actually meet your birkenau soup with a devout christian worked with madame curie emperor simon einstein and all of those for the league of nation, wrote the more rigorous way first in english and he said the japanese soul and the cherry blossoms are both indigenous to japan. so the so-called japanese soul, which enabled them to die without nation decentralize

three ascends. and so, when at the end of the war in 1944, on the sea started this one-way mission, he adopted a cherry blossom symbolism. and so all of, coffee planes have one cherryville undecided pain. and so, in another is a historical essays heard the end of the 19th century when japan realized that every other cherry in east asia was: nice. and that's how so-called a major restoration to face. they were sleeping with the. and from that time, before the 19 -- 1889 imperial constitution

of japan was drafted and actually except article i will fix it by german scholars, legal scholars. but anyway, from then on, they started two years falling cherry petals as the motto for warriors and soldiers die for japan for is kamikaze trained pilots when writing your boat for him and is one. the very well known historian was being trained and was on the base. and so he was absolutely helpful telling me what the morale was at the end and if you were to

syncope triassic song, guilty clubs by your comrades. because nobody believed in patriotism winning the war anymore. >> they knew it was over. >> it's very clear in 1942 they started to write. there's no chance of japan winning the war. >> in 1942. >> forty-two, yes. they started to all kinds of rationalization when they have to die. what i think people outsiders know about marxism was very strong in japan. and so, so many of them would say that if i die and then advanced capitalism is just tried by attacking u.k. and u.s. as well as japan and then maybe

there is some meaning for my death. >> how did you find out about these diaries? how did you get interested in this topic? >> actually i did not notice that many japanese did not know. but part of the reason my book was very welcomed in japan because people just forgot. and they never connected this military -- militarization of cherry blossoms to other meanings, so cherry blossoms. and so, i started out by actually going to a cherry blossom viewing. but the interesting part about what i call poly focal symbol is as you know, one is the symbol,

which started out actually by mrs. taft. in the last year this very time i was so called a distinguished chair of modern culture of congress. so i gave a talk when the cherry blossoms and the tidal basin with full bloom about this. mrs. town inaugurated so much, giving cherry blossoms were sending cherry plants all over the world. >> that was in 1911? >> yes, yes. >> wherever you point? >> japan. >> and when did you come to the u.s.? >> in the stone age. [laughter] >> were you at all to life during world war ii? >> yes, i was little so i don't remember anything except my mother who was always protect

did and never ever had to do anything except all of the servants then started to go to alter, we wouldn't be scared remember this would put is that offensive to you is as you are within a it good. though my elementary school had a good. you ever see go and then we will run home. and when time is running for and the american planes came and started to shoot. so i sat into the pit and then bullets went about just

10 inches. then my mother came for me. >> did you lose your big house after the war? >> my house was not by the 75% of japan had a carpet bombing. and so many of them were bombed. colby was the third biggest city to be carpet bombed. >> what was her father's profession? >> he was a businessman. in fact it was interesting because he was saved by two americans in 1923 earthquake. and so, they brought my father and their ship to call they and then these two americans were captured as for prisoners in guam, but was sent and so my mother started to self host of

clothing and all of that health and, not only in these two fellows, but i heard. my father is by police depression easter and we care >> because they thought he was disloyal to the emperor? >> anybody to have much to do with the foreigners but the suspect. >> so how did you get to the u.s. indeed you ever think that you would come here likes after being bombed? >> would've in the is your is is

is is is is is is that we get. he is the fact that you are one of the for the is with you is as good as is a don't you dissipate. and it was also wonderful not to be raised to have ambition.

>> really? >> yes, because you don't is to achieve. >> well, that was a hobby and that was not terribly interested in is "kamikaze diaries" and what has been the response quite >> it was not a translation. all of this has to be adjusted to the japanese readers. >> and what does that mean? >> because certain things i have to explain there for the readers outside. but then some of the things i don't have to explain to the japanese readers. >> and so i believe it came fairly either before or right after. >> so right after this weekend still going to japan and i will

be giving a lecture, yes is. >> emiko ohnuki-tierney's book, "kamikaze diaries: reflection of japanese student soldiers" published by the university of chicago press. who is this on the cover? >> he is a graduate of university of tokyo. and this is the day before his death. and his brother, who was a professor gave him permission -- >> his brother is still living? and was his, can't has sold? >> no. none of them are. is is to see if you do the.

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