Word: togo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifty miles across at their narrowest, the Tsushima Straits are Japan's historic doors to the Asiatic mainland. Over them centuries ago Regent Hideyoshi's armada sailed to battle the Koreans and send home 38,000 enemy ears pickled in wine. Upon them in 1905 crusty Admiral Togo smashed the Russian fleet. Presumably the submarine knocking on the door last week was American. It had achieved one of World War IPs most daring submarine penetrations of enemy waters, a feat ranking with German Günther Prien's entry at Scapa Flow, the Jap invasion of Pearl...
...chose the Navy as a career so that he could "return Commodore Perry's visit." After graduation from Japan's Naval Academy in 1904, he fought as an ensign in the Russo-Japanese War aboard Admiral Togo's flagship, the Mikasa. In 1925 he was naval attaché in Washington; in 1934, Japan's delegate at the naval conference in London, where he urged the abolition of restrictions on naval building. While in London he was made a vice admiral; later he became Vice Minister of the Navy, then Chief of the Navy Aviation Department, finally...
When Tokyo last week told of the resignation of Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo (not to be confused with Premier Hideki Tojo), many dopesters thought that Japan's long-feared attack on Siberia would shortly begin. In 1938 and 1939 Shigenori Togo was Ambassador to Russia, where he was said to have helped plan the Russo-Japanese Non-Aggression Pact. Rumor said that Jap etiquette required that he resign before Japan broke its pact...
...importance of little Shigenori Togo in this huge picture was grotesquely exaggerated. He is a mild, faint-voiced career diplomat who has never wielded real weight in Japanese politics. As a negotiator in Russia he was probably no more than Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka's on-the-spot agent...
...Inside by Hashumura Togo...