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The Japanese believed that storms, most likely typhoons, that had destroyed Mongolian fleets attempting invasions in 1274 and 1281 been sent from the gods to protect them from their enemies and called them Kamikaze (‘divine wind’).

The term kamikaze was later used later to exalt military aviators of the Empire of Japan who made suicide attacks, primarily against Allied naval vessels, during World War II.

Kamikaze may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Military

• Kamikaze-class destroyer, two classes of destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy
• Japanese destroyer Kamikaze, two destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy
• Japanese salvage ship Kamikaze Maru No. 5, a salvage and repair ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy
• Japanese salvage ship Kamikaze Maru No. 7, a salvage and repair ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy
• Kamikaze drone, or loitering munition, a type of weapon system

Sports

• Kamakazi (BMX rider), Australian BMX cyclist Jamie Hildebrandt (born 1981)
• Kamikaze Shoichi, Japanese sumo wrestler Shoichi Akazawa (1921–1990)
• Kamikaze (soccer formation), a 1-6-3 formation in association football
• Mammoth Kamikaze or Kamikaze Downhill, a former American downhill mountain bike race

Other uses

• Kamikaze (1937 aircraft), a Mitsubishi Ki-15 Karigane aircraft, the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly from Japan to Europe
• Kamikaze (cocktail), a vodka cocktail
• Kamikaze (typhoon), two typhoons that defeated Mongol invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281
• Kamikaze, a codename for a 2007 OpenWrt release
• Kamikaze knot, a variant of Sheepshank knot, a shortening knot
• Kamikaze, a water slide at Magic Mountain in Moncton, New Brunswick

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Kamikaze
• Kamikaze Curve, a sharp curve on New York State Route 17
• Kamikaze 1NT, a treatment for an opening notrump bid in contract bridge
• Kamikaz (rapper), French rapper
• Comikaze, a 2005 EP by Kate Miller-Heidke
• Comikaze Expo, an annual event in Los Angeles, California
• Shinpūren rebellion, an 1876 ex-samurai uprising in Kumamoto, Japan (Shinpū is an alternate reading of the characters for kamikaze)