Failing that, Yamato was to beach herself and be used as a fortress or draw fire from American aircraft to allow kamikaze pilots the chance to fulfill their missions.
In another workshop elsewhere in Ukraine, a team of 30 volunteers is cutting carbon fibre with lasers to produce kamikaze quadcopters that deliver 1.5kg of explosives to targets up to 8km away.
There were his two invasions of Japan, in 1274 and 1281, which both times resulted in typhoons wrecking his entire navy - an incident which led to the Japanese concept of the " Divine Wind" or kamikaze.