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Almost 75 years have passed since Admiral Heihachiro Togo, in the climactic encounter of the Russo-Japanese war, sank 20 of the 38 czarist warships that participated in the battle of the Sea of Japan. The echoes still reverberate. Spurred anew by an old tale that Czar Nicholas II's sunken fleet had been carrying a fortune in gold and other precious metals, a team of divers six months ago reached the 8,524-ton Russian cruiser Admiral Nakhimov, in 314 ft. of water 5.5 miles off Tsushima Island, in an area between South Korea and Japan that lies...
...samurai-turned-sakebrewer, Sato was born in the somnolent town of Tabuse, on Honshu's far eastern coast, just 100 miles from the Straits of Tsushima, where in Sato's fifth year Admiral Heihachiro Togo destroyed the Russian fleet. That was the year of Japan's greatest military success, but little of it rubbed off on Eisaku. Sato's older brother, Nobusuke Kishi,* was the star of the family, graduated second in his class at Tokyo University law school (Sato was much lower). In 1941, Kishi became one of the youngest Cabinet ministers in Japanese history...
There was a notable vacancy this week among the ghosts of Bushido warriors who circle endlessly above Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine. The AWOL god was Naval Warrant Officer Magoshichi Sugino, who was racked up among the immortals 42 years ago when (supposedly) he lost his life in Admiral Heihachiro Togo's crippling attack on the Russian Far Eastern fleet at Port Arthur...
This reasoning seemed historically sound. Admiral Heihachiro Togo, the half-Nelson of Japan, had caught Russian Admiral Rozhestvensky's fleet 18,000-miles off base in Tsushima Strait and destroyed...
Doctrine of Supply. The Japanese Navy has an Occidental background, but its functions are peculiarly Japanese and are often misunderstood by Westerners. Japan's greatest naval figure, Heihachiro Togo, served the apprenticeship to his trade in England...