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Photographer Hori's works disclosed to media

MATSUE, Japan - Photographs taken by Japanese photographer Ichiro Hori (1879-1969), including portraits of Japanese Adm. Heihachiro Togo (L front) and Japanese bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi's wife Mary (2nd from L, front), are disclosed to the media at Matsue History Museum in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 24, 2012. The photos, kept at the home of Kosaku Sano, Hori's nephew, in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, are scheduled to be exhibited at the museum from March 20, 2012.

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Nippon Meat says 2 execs involved in beef scam

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroji Okoso (C), president of Nippon Meat Packers Inc., says in Tokyo on Aug. 9 that two of its top executives were either directly involved in or aware of the subsidiary Nippon Food Inc.'s abuse of the state-run beef-buyback program. Okoso apologized for the fraud with Motoaki Shoji (L), senior managing director of Nippon Meat Packers, who also serves as director of Nippon Food Inc., and Heihachiro Azuma (R), vice president of Nippon Meat and president of the subsidiary.

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Russian navy cadets inspect Mikasa

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Some 25 Russian navy cadets on Sept. 19 inspect the Mikasa, the Japanese warship that served as the flagship during the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War. The Mikasa, used by Imperial Japanese Navy Fleet Adm. Heihachiro Togo (1848-1934), is preserved at a park in Yokosuka, eastern Japan.

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Nippon Meat says 2 execs involved in beef scam

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroji Okoso (C), president of Nippon Meat Packers Inc., says in Tokyo on Aug. 9 that two of its top executives were either directly involved in or aware of the subsidiary Nippon Food Inc.'s abuse of the state-run beef-buyback program. Okoso apologized for the fraud with Motoaki Shoji (L), senior managing director of Nippon Meat Packers, who also serves as director of Nippon Food Inc., and Heihachiro Azuma (R), vice president of Nippon Meat and president of the subsidiary. (Kyodo)

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The Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Naval Admirals

The Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) - Japanese Naval Admirals Date: circa 1905

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Marshal-Admiral Marquis Togo Heihachiro, Japanese Naval Hero

Marshal-Admiral Marquis Togo Heihachiro (18481934) - a gensui or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. Termed by Western journalists as "the Nelson of the East". Date: circa 1908

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Japanese pre-dreadnought battleship Mikasa - built in the UK

The Mikasa - a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s, and was the only ship of her class. The ship served as the flagship of Admiral Togo Heihachiro throughout the Russo-Japanese War of 19041905, including the Battle of Port Arthur Built at Vickers shipyard, Barrow-in-Furness Date: 1904

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Marshal-Admiral Marquis Togo Heihachiro

Marshal-Admiral Marquis Togo Heihachiro (18481934) - a gensui or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. Termed by Western journalists as "the Nelson of the East". Date: circa 1930

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Japanese Vice-Admiral Togo and Signal men

Japanese Vice-Admiral Togo and Signal men. Heihachiro, Marquis Togo (1838 - 1934) - Japanese naval commander whose defeat of the Russian fleet at Tsushima (in May 1905 - interestingly, four months prior to this card being sent!) - described as the greatest naval victory since Trafalgar. Date: 1905

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Russian navy cadets inspect Mikasa

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Some 25 Russian navy cadets on Sept. 19 inspect the Mikasa, the Japanese warship that served as the flagship during the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War. The Mikasa, used by Imperial Japanese Navy Fleet Adm. Heihachiro Togo (1848-1934), is preserved at a park in Yokosuka, eastern Japan.

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Photographer Hori's works disclosed to media

MATSUE, Japan - Photographs taken by Japanese photographer Ichiro Hori (1879-1969), including portraits of Japanese Adm. Heihachiro Togo (L front) and Japanese bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi's wife Mary (2nd from L, front), are disclosed to the media at Matsue History Museum in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 24, 2012. The photos, kept at the home of Kosaku Sano, Hori's nephew, in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, are scheduled to be exhibited at the museum from March 20, 2012. (Kyodo)

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Wartime Japanese Adm. Heihachiro Togo

File photo taken in 1905 shows Heihachiro Togo, a fleet admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy and hero of the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo