Ideology | Defunct
1348 CE to 1599 CE
Wokou, which literally translates to "Japanese pirates" or "dwarf pirates", are pirates who raid the coastlines of China, Japan and Korea.
Wokou come from a mixture of ethnicities.
The term wokou is a combination of Wō, referring to either dwarfs or the Japanese, and kòu, "bandit".
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