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
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
Battle of Tsushima
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The Battle of Tsushima was the final naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War, fought on 27–28 May 1905 in the Tsushima Strait. A devastating defeat for the Imperial Russian Navy, the battle was the onl
Tōgō Heihachirō
…War of 1904–1905, he successfully confined the Russian Pacific naval forces to Port Arthur before winning a decisive victory over a relieving fleet at Tsushima in May 1905. Western journalists called Tōgō "the Nelson of the East". He remains deeply revered as a national hero in Japan, with shrines and streets…
Painting of the battle by Tōjō Shōtarō, 1905
Departure of the Japanese Combined Fleet in the morning of 27 May 1905
Russian battleship Oslyabya, the first warship sunk in the battle
Damaged Oryol at Maizuru Naval Arsenal