Marshal-Admiral the Marquis Tōgō Heihachirō (東郷 平八郎; 27 January 1848 – 30 May 1934), 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 Combined Fleet during the Russo-Japanese 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".
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27 January 1848 Kagoshima, Satsuma, Japan
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Died |
30 May 1934 (aged 86) Tokyo, Japan
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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