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Comparatively "poor men" who have appeared on TIME's cover: Anton Lang, John L. Lewis, Pope Pius XI, Alfred E. Smith, Paul von Hindenburg, Andrew Volstead, Doctor Ray Lyman Wilbur, Admiral Togo, René Fonck, Helen Wills, Joseph Conrad, Carrie Chapman Catt, Roy Chapman Andrews, Eugene O'Neill, John Joseph Pershing, Abd-el-Krim, Ramsay MacDonald and Leon Trotzky...
...them he is a descendant of the Sun Goddess, and thus actually possessed of Godhood. Moreover, only one dynasty has reigned* and still reigns in Japan. All spiritual and temporal good flows from the Emperor. Even the greatest of all Japanese victories, the capture of Port Arthur by Admiral Togo (1905), was officially ascribed to "the virtue of the Emperor." Therefore last week when the people of Japan set about the funeral of the late Emperor Yoshihito (TIME, Jan. 3), they very properly proceeded as though they were escorting a god to his last rest. Expense. Four million...
...Togo. Though he lay abed last week, it is not long since Admiral Count Heihachiro Togo, short even for a Japanese, shy even for a hero, sat often in his garden of a morning, puffing his little silver pipe in the solitude which he loves...
...excellent care of my dogs." When he returned, a world hero, his one extravagance was to purchase from the court photographer the sole negative of himself then in existence in Japan. From this the photographer had been making prints of the Admiral which he sold at a high price. Togo, having purchased the negative, destroyed it, saying:. "I am shocked to find that people . . . spend money on the portrait of such a stupid person...
From the Tenno* to whom he is what von Tirpitz was to Wilhelm II, Admiral Togo accepted, perforce, The Grand Order of the Chrysanthemum, The First Order of the Golden Kite, and his creation in 1907 as a count. At the time of his capture of Port Arthur the State declared the victory due to "the Virtue of the Tenno." The Tenno ascribed it to the intercession of his ancestors. Admiral Togo, asked which of these theories he favored, replied gravely and laconically: "Both...