Using Google Earth as our map, we follow the Mongol invasions of Japan by tracing the sea routes, landing points, and battlefield terrain that defined both campaigns in 1274 and 1281. We begin across ...

A shipwreck dating to roughly 745 years ago has been identified off the coast of Takashima island in Nagasaki prefecture, Japan, adding to a small but growing collection of vessels tied to the Mongol ...