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The Mongol fleet destroyed in a typhoon, ink and water on paper, by Kikuchi Yōsai, 1847. The kamikaze (Japanese: 神風, lit. ' divine wind ') were two winds or storms that are said to have saved Japan from two Mongol fleets under Kublai Khan. These fleets attacked Japan in 1274 and again in 1281. [1]
The fact that the typhoon that helped Japan defeat the Mongol navy in the first invasion occurred in late November, well after the normal Pacific typhoon season (May to October), perpetuated the Japanese belief that they would never be defeated or successfully invaded, which remained an important aspect of Japanese foreign policy until the very ...
Typhoon Haishen (2020) (T2010, 11W, Kristine) – a Category 4 super typhoon that moved through Japan and the Korean Peninsula. Severe Tropical Storm Trami (2024) (T2420, 22W, Kristine) – A deadly and destructive tropical storm that drenched the Philippine area.
On Wednesday night, Bolaven rapidly intensified into a violent typhoon packing maximum sustained winds of over 130 mph (about 210 km/h). A peak wind gust of 68 mph (109 km/h) was recorded on ...
The powerful Typhoon Mawar that lashed Guam on Thursday has interrupted travel and tropical island life for residents and U.S. military members in one of the nation’s most remote territories.
The Denver metropolitan area was one of the early focal points for the new wave of Mongolian immigrants. [6] Other communities formed by recent Mongolian immigrants include ones in Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. [3] The largest Mongolian-American community in the United States is located in Los Angeles, California.
A super typhoon ripped through Philippines’ largest island on Sunday, knocking down houses and sending more than half a million people to emergency shelters, as rare back-to-back storms cause ...
A typhoon in August 1747 killed more than 20,000 people in the counties of Shanghai and Nanhui alone. [30] A typhoon made landfall in Taiwan in 1750 and wrecked several hundred merchant ships, one of the earliest Taiwan landfalls documented. [6] In December 1752, a typhoon killed at least one person in the Philippines. There were two typhoons ...