You're more mixed-up than anybody. I'll just address this part. Get your facts straight. The Kamikaze program was conceived at Mabalacat Airfield, which formed a part of the Clark Base complex, which was some 50 miles NW of Manila, on or about 19 October 1944, with fewer than 100 planes operational, out of the 201st Air Group, just as we were at the mouth of the Leyte Gulf.
Disagree, and further, would suggest you are misquoting the Japanese sources you mention. Suicide attacks had been used unnofficially by all nationalities from the beginning of the war, but in particualr the japanese. The first recorded or known use of deliberate suicide attacks occurred during Santa Cruz, in October 1942, thereafter ther were increasingly frequesnt instances of their usage.
In the fall of 1943, the AAF began to form its first "Special Attack Units" in New Guinea. In the fall of 1943 and for about a month at the beginning of 1944, Lt. Col. Koji Tanaka, a staff officer of the Imperial General Headquarters, surveyed the situation in New Guinea. In an effort to stop the constant raids, some Japanese army pilots had resorted to crashing their planes into American B-17s and B-24s. The use of these special attack methods by the army began in 1943 and lasted into the spring of 1944. They included deliberate suicide attacks against airborne, land based and sea based targets, including a successful attack on DD 394
Tanaka returned to Japan and reported his findings to the highest echelon of the Army and recommended that the use of special attack operations be considered. Philosophical disagreements sprang up among the top army officers. The discussion centered on whether or not special attack tactics and squadrons should be under a mandate from the Imperial Army or whether they should be strictly volunteer. Both the Inspector General of Aviation, Gen. Korechika Anami and his deputy chief, Lt. Gen. Torashiro Kawabe, felt that they should be strictly voluntary. After conversations with Maj. Gen. Shuichi Miyazaki, the Chief of the First Bureau, General Staff Headquarters, it was decided not to order army pilots to engage in special attack training. Shortly thereafter, in July 1944, the army "Aviation Inspector-General sent a letter to all flight school superintendents requesting a list of special attack volunteers be submitted. (A similar letter was sent from the War Minister to all air group commanders.)" Within a short period of time the army had selected fifty volunteers. Bomber pilots trained at Hamamatsu and Hokoda Army Flight Schools and the fighter pilots at Hitachi and Akeno Army Flight Schools. The following month, another sixty volunteers were accepted for special attack training and the program began to grow. By fall of 1944, the army pilots were still undergoing training, but the navy had also been considering special attacks. The program was initiated by the navy using regular pilots who were asked to volunteer.
Japanese sources frequently credit RAdm. Masafumi Arima as the inspiration for the beginning of the suicide attacks at the Philippines. Arima commanded the 26th Air Flotilla which was based at Manila. On 15 October 1944, he decided to lead a strike against American carriers near Luzon, an unusual undertaking for an officer of his high rank. Japanese reports claim that Arima crashed his Zero into the carrier Franklin CV 13, but this is unlikely. Neither Franklin nor the other carriers in the American force were hit by kamikazes that day.
The official (American version) of the beginning of the Japanese Navy's kamikaze units came on 19 October 1944 when VAdm. Takijiro Onishi (who was headquartered at Formosa) toured the base of the 201st Air Group at Mabalacat, Philippines. His command at that time had already suffered heavy losses from repeated strikes undertaken in prepration for the main operation ( source Rielly, Robin L.
Kamikaze attacks of World War II : a complete history of Japanese suicide strikes on American ships, by aircraft and other means)Onishi had just been appointed commander of the First Air Fleet with his operational orders including the formation of "special attack units" similar to the above described army units already in training. AFAIK, the Navy was also training units along the same lines. The Navy General Staff had recognized that Japan's position in the war was tenuous. Onishi, in accordance with his orders suggested to the air group's leaders that suicide crashes were their only chance to defeat the enemy. Within the hour the determination had been made to use this extreme attack method and twenty-seven members of the 201st volunteered for the mission. These men were not poorly trained beginners but were ranked among the best pilots in the air group. Lt. Yukio Seki, a graduate of the Naval Academy, was selected as their leader.
So, saying the initiatve for the kamikazes came from an obscure small unit in the Phillipines is completely misleading and frankly, untrue.