MATSUURA, Nagasaki Prefecture—Artifacts discovered on the seabed off Takashima island here were confirmed as parts of a shipwreck from the 13th century Mongol invasion of Japan. The findings ...

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 ...