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Tōgō Kichitarō
was a vice admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Biography Tōgō was born in what is now Kagoshima Prefecture as the younger son of a samurai of Satsuma Domain. He was the nephew of Fleet Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō. Tōgō was a graduate of the 13th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1886. At the start of the First Sino-Japanese War he was a lieutenant and division commander on the gunboat ,corvette , and by the end of the war served as gunnery officer on the cruisers and . he was promoted to lieutenant commander in June 1898 and became chief gunnery officer on the battleship in March 1899. He was sent to Great Britain in August 1900 as part of the Japanese crew for the new battleship , returning in February 1901. He received his first command, that of the ex-Chinese gunboat ''Soko'', in October 1901. He was promoted to commander in October 1902. From April to December 1903 he was assigned as aide-de-camp to Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito. At the start of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satsuma Domain
The , briefly known as the , was a domain (''han'') of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1602 to 1871. The Satsuma Domain was based at Kagoshima Castle in Satsuma Province, the core of the modern city of Kagoshima, located in the south of the island of Kyushu. The Satsuma Domain was ruled for its existence by the '' Tozama'' ''daimyō'' of the Shimazu clan, who had ruled the Kagoshima area since the 1200s, and covered territory in the provinces of Satsuma, Ōsumi and Hyūga. The Satsuma Domain was assessed under the '' Kokudaka'' system and its value peaked at 770,000 '' koku'', the second-highest domain in Japan after the Kaga Domain. Totman, Conrad. (1993) ''Early Modern Japan'', p. 119 The Satsuma Domain was one of the most powerful and prominent of Japan's domains during the Edo period, conquering the Ryukyu Kingdom as a vassal state after the invasion of Ryukyu in 1609, and clashing with the British during the bombardment of Kagoshima in 186 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JPN Zuiho-sho (WW2) 4Class BAR
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 123.2 million on narrow coastal plains. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. The Greater Tokyo Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
