Ghenko - The Mongol Invasion of Japan #220498

Ghenko, as the Japanese call the Mongol Invasion — a momentous national event which occurred in the last two decades of the thirteenth century — is, in my opinion, one of the most important facts which should be known by our friends who take an interest in the evolution of the Japanese power. For Japan is not a nation which became a world power simply because of the victories won in the chino-japanese and russo-japanese wars, but because of the superior spirit that has existed in the heart of, the nation from earliest tlmes.