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JAPAN III THE ENVOY HAVING FAILED IN THEIR MISSION WERE EXECUTED. KHAN IMMEDIATELY BEGAN PREPARATIONS FOR WAR. SEAFARING WAS UNKNOWN TO THE MONGOLS, BUT IT WAS A WAY OF LIFE WITH THE KOREANS. UNWITTINGLY, THEY AGREED TO COLLABORATE WITH THE INVADERS, EIGHT YEARS WERE SPENT IN THE BUILDING OF SHIPS AND THE TRAINING OF TROOPS. FINALLY, IN NOVEMBER OF 1274, AN ARMADA OF 800 VESSELS CARRYING 23,000 SOLDIERS AND 7,000 KOREAN AND CHINESE SAILORS DEPARTED FOR HAKATA BAY ON THE NORTHERN SHORE OF KYUSU. IN JAPAN, THE SAMURAI, GATHERING THEIR LEIGONS, HAD ALSO BEEN PREPARING FOR THE MOMENTOS BATTLE. JAPAN IV THE JAPANESE, THOUGH FIGHTING FIERCELY, WERE NO MATCH FOR THE WAR-LOVING MONGOLS. AS THE BATTLE WORE ON, IT SEEMED INEVITABLE THAT THE CHINESE WOULD WIN, WHEN SUDDENLY AN UNEXPECTED TURN OF EVENTS OCCUREDXA STORM BEGAN TO RAGE. AS IT GREW STRONGER, THE KOREAN SAILORSyFEARING THEY WOULD BE MAROONED ON SHORE, ADVISED THE INVADERS TO RETURN TO THEIR SHIPS. JAPAN V THE STORM FOLLOWED THE WSBMT OUT TO SEA, 3 DESTROY?½ IN)^ HALF OF THEIR FLEET. THE REMAINING SURVIVORS RETURNED, DEFEATED, TO CHINA. THE GODS OF NATURE, WHOM THE JAPANESE WORSHIpffsb IN THEIR SHINTO RELIGION, HAD COME TO THEIR AID- THE STORM WAS TO BECOME KNOWN AS "KAMAKAZE" MEANING "DIVINE WIND". >9