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Faced with the threat of war from the Mongol Empire, Japan responded with a cold attitude of no reply, no contact, and no envoys allowed to enter Beijing. In anger, Kublai Khan sent troops to Japan twice, but encountered storms at sea and returned defeated. Japan calls this storm "kamikaze". How does this affect the Japanese's world imagination and self-understanding? Although the two countries were far away from each other, maritime trade became more popular than during the Tang and Song Dynasties. Why do officials and people flock to the copper coins that arrived in Japan as ballast? What impact did the Zen monk, who was not afraid of risks and traveled across the sea to study, have on Japanese culture after returning home? At the same time, the Kamakura shogunate, which had expanded its power, gradually collapsed amid the domestic crisis that intensified after the war. The succeeding Muromachi shogunate and the emperor fought openly and secretly, and their power and status gradually reversed. Japan entered the Southern and Northern Dynasties, which were prone to turmoil. The Li Dynasty rose on the Korean Peninsula. The Yuan Dynasty fell and the Ming Dynasty implemented a maritime ban. Where will the international order in East Asia go? Re-examining the relationship between Yuan and Japan from a maritime perspective, interlocking historical connections emerge one by one.