Arima Ryōkitsu
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Admiral Arima Ryōkitsu was a career naval officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy during Meiji and Taishō periods.
Arima Ryokitsu
Tōgō Heihachirō
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Tōgō Heihachirō was a Japanese naval officer who served as a gensui or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and became one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. As Commander-in-Chief of the
Arima Ryōkitsu
…developed a military strategy which considered attrition as an element of overwhelming force in warfare; and this analysis caught the attention of Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō in the period shortly before the outbreak of hostilities in the Russo-Japanese War. During the Russo-Japanese War, he received his first command, that…
Tōgō Heihachirō
Monument recording site of birthplace in Kagoshima
Officers of the Japanese warship Kasuga in August 1869. Third-class officer Tōgō is dressed in white, top right.
Tōgō during his studies in Europe, in 1877