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...Hirohito's earliest mentors were the war lords who had made modern Japan a power-stern General Maresuke Nogi, the victor of Port Arthur, and Admiral Heihatiro Togo, who, at Tsushima, had sunk most of Russia's feckless fleet in one of history's decisive naval battles...
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...
...rough Tsushima Straits, where two-decker, train-carrying ferries ply between Japan and Korea, an Allied submarine up-periscoped, unleashed a torpedo. The missile stabbed the flank of a Jap steamer. Said the Tokyo radio: the steamer went down in "seconds," with loss of 544 persons aboard...
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...
...Navy displaces better than its own weight in pride, and he has grown up with that pride. He graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy in time to lose the first and second fingers of his left hand aboard Admiral Togo's flagship Mikasa in the great battle off Tsushima in 1904. Down the years he has absorbed and fostered the morale of Japan's Navy, the crafty conservatism of Japanese naval statesmanship, pride in such things as the superiority of Japanese Navy bombings over Army bombings of Chungking, 600 miles from...