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Heihachiro Togo

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Heihachiro Togo , 1846-1934, Japanese admiral, Japan's greatest naval hero. He studied naval science in England (1871-78), gained international recognition for his service in the First Sino-Japanese War , and contributed greatly to the development of Japanese sea power. In the Russo-Japanese War he defeated the Russian fleet at Port Arthur in 1904 and destroyed the Russian Baltic fleet in 1905 at the battle of Tsushima . This historic battle broke Russian strength in East Asia. Later he was chief of the naval general staff and a member of the supreme war council. Bibliography: See... Read more

Heihachiro Togo
Heihachiro Togo Heihachiro Togo (1848-1934) was Japan's greatest...adoption of a new name. Nakagoro Togo chose the name Heihachiro, which means "peaceful son," as...he would be known ever after. Togo was educated early in life, as... Read more

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...important as the castle town of the Shimazu family and as the birthplace of Takamori Saigo , Toshimichi Okubo , and Heihachiro Togo . The center of the Satsuma Rebellion, the city was destroyed in 1877. In 1914 it suffered damage from the eruption... Read more

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	A naval flag from the Battle of Tsushima has been returned to Japan after it was traced by a priest in Tokyo.(News)(Brief Article) ; ...traced by a priest in Tokyo. Admiral Heihachiro Togo defeated the Russians at Port Arthur...Japan as a world power. In the 1870s, Togo studied with the Royal Navy in Britain...Chiharu Himuro, a senior priest at the Togo Shrine. It will now feature in this... Read more
	Tsushima: Prelude to Pearl Harbor ; ...Strait in May 1905. * ADMIRAL TOGO: "THE FATE OF THE NATION DEPENDS...Russo-Japanese War saw Japanese Admiral Heihachiro Togo mastermind a series of attacks...through the ordeal at Nossi-Be. Togo was holding orderly, unhurried...safely locked at Madagascar, Togo took several days' leave ... Read more
	Iron Admirals: Naval Leadership in the Twentieth Century ; ...accounts of the major battles fought by four men who successfully commanded battlefleets in the 20th century-Japan's Heihachiro Togo, England's Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, and America's William F. "Bull" Halsey and Raymond A. Spruance. Andidora... Read more
	(book reviews) ; ...argue that IJN officers failed to grasp the concept. In their view, Japanese naval planners, influenced by Admiral Togo Heihachiro's success against the Russian Baltic Fleet at Tsushima in 1905 and wrong conclusions drawn from the naval actions... Read more
	Prelude to Pearl Harbor-the battle of Tsushima ; ...through the gray, eddying mist. Admiral Heihachiro Togo sensed, however, that less than a...of Korea forty miles below Pusan, Togo's flag flew in the veteran battleship...darkness and seasonal mists closed in, Togo became increasingly restless. He... Read more
	How Japanese defeat of Russian fleet in 1905 shaped history.(BOOKS) ; ...battleships and a cruiser were severely damaged. Port Arthur was as much a trap as a secure anchorage. Japanese Adm. Togo Heihachiro's fleet was the cork in the bottle, and Japanese land forces were closing in on the critical heights above. Nicholas... Read more
	THIS ARMADA HAD SINKING FEELING FROM START ; ...surpassed" the Japanese fleet commanded by Togo Heihachiro, "still unanimously praised as an unsurpassed...The Russians had more battleships, but Togo's was much stronger in torpedo boats and cruisers. [And] Togo's hugest asset was speed. An admiral who... Read more
	Military Intervention in Pre-War Japanese Politics: Admiral Kato Kanji and the "Washington System".(Book Review) ; ...rightwing activists including Ikki Kita and Shumei Okawa, members of the Kokuhonsha, and the great war hero, Admiral Heihachiro Togo, rallied round Kato in an attempt to torpedo the treaty. At first it seemed as though they had laboured in vain... Read more
	Business In Great Waters ; ...naval men. John Paul Jones, though brave and brilliant, is to Howarth a shade less exalted than Horatio Nelson or Togo Heihachiro because he failed to inspire devotion in his commands as did the great British and Japanese admirals. On the other... Read more
	A truly Noble brew on a journey back home.(News) ; ...Kashima. Six years later, Japanese naval hero Admiral Heihachiro Togo was a guest. Rumour has it that during dinner in the Great Hall, local businessmen listened in on the Togo party's conversation from the secluded balcony above... Read more

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