Kami-kaze

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Kamikaze
Kamikaze (Japanese: 神風; literally: "god-wind"; common translation: "divine wind") is a word of Japanese origin, which in English usually refers to the suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan, against Allied shipping, in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II. It is considered related to the Bushido tradition.
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Kami-kaze
[Japanese] The Japanese god of the wind, storms and bad cold. When the Mongolian fleet tried to invade Japan, Kami-kaze blew the fleet away. In World War II, Japanese pilots where named after him. They flew suicidal missions with planes, loaded with bombs, crashing into enemy ships. 


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