This refers to the military forces of Genko, two military campaigns launched against Japan by the Mongol Empire (Yuan Dynasty) and its vassal state, Goguryeo, in the years 1274 and 1281.

More than a half-millennium after the Mongol Invasion, the kamikaze myth was revived as part of Japan’s imperialistic campaigns of the early twentieth century. The 1931 Manchurian Incident ...