Heihachiro TOGO in TOKYO MYSTERY FILES + KOZUKUE ICHIGO

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Heihachiro TOGO: Shibuya-ku Jingumae.

Do you know the beer called Amiraali of Finland?
What does Amiraali mean?
The commander of the fleet.
What about the beer?
They made labels of the beer of 24 world admirals.
Two Japanese were used in the kind of the label.
Who is it?
Isoroku Yamamoto and Heihachiro Togo.
Who is that?
Who is that?
Don't you say that.
Where is this?
Does Mr. Togo have anything to do with Togo-jinja Shrine?
This is Heihachiro Togo's shrine.
What did he do?
He played an active part in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904.
It is the times when the Edo era was just over.
He is a person of the Satsuma domain.
Did he know Takamori Saigou?
He got permission of the studying abroad in U. K. from Saigo.
But, while he studies abroad,
Saigo was killed in the Southwestern War.
Oh my god.
Hey, What is the Russo-Japanese War?
Japan opened the country to the world after the Edo era.
They was going to make Korea and an alliance.
Korea is near.
But Korea closed the country.
Did they refuse it?
Korea was frightened by the armed country.
They made an alliance with Japan.
But Qing dynasty ruled Korea.
Qing dynasty is China now?
Yeah.
Qing was angry very much.
Why did Korea make an alliance with Japan?
There were people who wanted to become independent from Qing in Korea.
Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1894.
This is the war for the first time after Japan opened the country.
Japan and the group of opening the country in Korea beat Qing dynasty.
Japan obtained the territory of Qing.
Japan had confidence.
But European countries were angry.
Europe took the territory of Qing away from Japan.
It is Russia, France and Germany.
New enemies appeared.
Russian Empire strikes the Eurasian Continent.
Did Russia kill everybody?
The war isn't so simple.
There were people in favor of Russia in Qing and Korea.
Why?
They were dissatisfied with diplomacy with Japan.
They clashed over Japan or Russia.
Which is stronger?
Of course it's Russian Empire.
Oh boy.
But there was the country who disliked Russia.
What country is it?
The United Kingdom.
Did Japan buy the weapon from the U. K. again?
Choshu domain bought the weapon from them in Edo era.
Yeah.
But it is hard to use the weapon of modern times.
What about Russia?
Russia had the Baltic Fleet that is unrivaled.
She said unrivaled.
It is a fleet of the pride in Russia.
The U.K. annoyed them.
What did they do?
They blockaded the port.
They went to Japan over a period of seven months.
The long sea voyage is tiring.
Togo's fleet have defeated the Baltic Fleet.
It was a unexpected result.
Why was his fleet able to win?
Togo used the unique tactics.
The tactics is the Crossing the T.
This was called Togo Turn later.
She knows a lot about the war history.
Yeah.
Next?
Can you?
There is an Islamic mosque not far from here.