Kagoshima was also the birthplace of Tōgō Heihachirō.

Admiral Tōgō, based at Pusan, Korea also believed Tsushima would be the preferred Russian course.

' Tōgō also surprised these young Englishmen by graduating second in the class.

The city is also served by the Kyōikudaimae and Tōgō JR stations.

Tōgō ' observed the strange animals on the Southern continent.

' Mr. Capel commented later, ' If ', he wrote, ' I had not seen with my own eyes what a Japanese can suffer without complaint, I should often have been disinclined to believe .... But, having observed Tōgō, I believe all of them.

And finally, by 27 May 1905, Admiral Tōgō and his men had two battleship fleet actions under their belts, which amounted to over 4 hours of combat experience in battleship to battleship combat at Port Arthur and the Yellow Sea — experience which would eliminate the miscalculations and rash decisions made during those battles, while applying the learned lessons from those sea engagements with both finesse and ruthlessness at Tsushima.

During the Franco-Chinese War ( 1884 – 1885 ), Tōgō, onboard Amagi, closely followed the actions of the French fleet under Admiral Courbet.

As the conflict spread to northern Japan, Tōgō participated as a third-class officer aboard the Kasuga in the last battles against the remnants of the Bakufu forces, the Naval Battle of Miyako and the Naval Battle of Hakodate ( 1869 ).

* April 29 – Trial against war criminals begin in Tokyo ; the accused include Hideki Tōjō, Shigenori Tōgō and Hiroshi Ōshima.

In January 1868, during the Boshin War, Tōgō was assigned to the paddle-wheel steam warship Kasuga, which participated to the Naval Battle of Awa, near Osaka, against the navy of the Tokugawa Bakufu, the first Japanese naval battle between two modern fleets.

Tōgō publicly expressed a dislike and disinterest for involvement in politics ; however, he did make strong statements against the London Naval Treaty.

Tōgō was adamantly against war with the United States and the other western powers, which he felt was unwinnable, and together with Mamoru Shigemitsu, made unsuccessful last-ditch efforts to arrange for direct face-to-face negotiations between Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe and US President Franklin Roosevelt in an attempt to stave off conflict.

In 1894, at the beginning of the First Sino-Japanese War, Tōgō, as a captain of the cruiser Naniwa, sank the British transport ship, Kowshing, which was chartered by the Chinese Beiyang Fleet to convey troops.

The graphic novel Maruta 454 ( 2010 ), by Paul-Yanic Laquerre, Song Yang and Pastor, depicts the escape of 12 Chinese prisoners from Unit Tōgō, based on Wang's testimony.

Marshal-General of the Navy Marquis Tōgō Heihachirō, OM, GCVO (（ 東郷 平八郎, 27 January 1848 – 30 May 1934 ), was a marshal-general ( Fleet Admiral ) in the Imperial Japanese Navy and one of Japan's greatest naval heroes.

Tōgō was born on 27 January 1848 ( by the Western calendar ) in the Kajiya-chō ( 加治屋町 ） district of the city of Kagoshima in Satsuma domain ( modern-day Kagoshima prefecture ), in feudal Japan, the third of four sons of Tōgō Sanetomo ( 1805-1867 ), a samurai serving the Shimazu daimyo, and Hori Masuko ( 1812-1901 ).

After the end of the Sino-Japanese War, Tōgō was successively commandant of the Naval War College ( Japan ), commander of the Sasebo Naval College, and Commander of the Standing Fleet.

This region played a key role in the Meiji Restoration ( Saigo Takamori ), and the city of Kagoshima was an important naval base during Japan's 20th century wars and the home of admiral Tōgō Heihachirō.

It was established on October 12, 2004 with the merger of the city of Sendai, Kagoshima, the towns of Hiwaki, Iriki, Kedōin and Tōgō, and Koshikijima Islands ( which consisted of the villages of Kamikoshiki, Kashima, Sato and Shimokoshiki ), all from Satsuma District.

* October 12, 2004-merger of the city of Sendai, Kagoshima, the towns of Hiwaki, Iriki, Kedōin and Tōgō, and Koshikijima Islands ( which consisted of the villages of Kamikoshiki, Kashima, Sato and Shimokoshiki ), all from Satsuma District.

* Tōgō Heihachirō ( 1848 – 1934 ), a Japanese admiral, known as the " Nelson of the East "

As for General Nogi Maresuke who had several shrines throughout Japan named for him ( Nogi Shrine ), there are other Tōgō shrines, for example there is one at Tsuyazaki, Fukuoka, within earshot of the Battle of Tsushima won by Tōgō.

* Togo Heihachiro in images ( 図説東郷平八郎 、 目で見る明治の海軍 ), Tōgō Shrine and Tōgō Association ( 東郷神社 ・ 東郷会 ), ( Japanese )

In this battle the Japanese fleet under Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō destroyed two-thirds of the Russian fleet, under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, which had traveled over to reach the Far East.

Tōgō was Chief of the Naval General Staff and was given the title of hakushaku ( Count ) under the kazoku peerage system.

Vitgeft put to sea at 08: 30 on 10 August 1904 and engaged the waiting Japanese under Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō in what was to become known as the Battle of the Yellow Sea.

His father, Toshikazu Kase, was a diplomat under Shigenori Tōgō who negotiated an end to the Pacific war.

From 1914 to 1924, Tōgō was put in charge of the education of Crown Prince Hirohito, the future Shōwa Emperor.

In 1903, the Navy Minister Yamamoto Gonnohyōe appointed Tōgō Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Tōgō during his studies in Europe, in 1877

Tōgō studied mathematics in Cambridge ( though not at the University ) during this time, while living with Reverend A. S. Capel.

Tōgō was absent from Japan during the Satsuma Rebellion, and often expressed regret for the fate of his benefactor Saigō Takamori.

Post war investigations were held for the Russian naval leadership during those battles, in which Tōgō had either destroyed or captured, into the reasons behind their utter defeat.

In 1958, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, an admirer of Marshal-General Tōgō, helped to finance the restoration of the Mikasa, Admiral Tōgō's flagship during the Russo-Japanese war.

As Minister of the Navy during the Russo-Japanese War, Yamamoto showed strong leadership and was responsible for appointing Tōgō Heihachirō as commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet.

Zhongma Fortress, or Unit Tōgō, was a biological warfare research facility erected by the Japanese Kwantung Army in Beiyinhe, outside of Harbin, Manchukuo during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Tōgō was of ethnic Korean descent, whose ancestor was a potter, Park Pyeong-ui ( 박평의 1558-1623 ) who was abducted to Japan during the Japanese invasions of Korea ( 1592 – 1598 ) by Hideyoshi Toyotomi.

With the start of World War II, Tōgō worked quickly to conclude an alliance between Japan and the Kingdom of Thailand in late 1941.

Following the end of World War II, Tōgō retired to his summer home in Karuizawa, Nagano.

During the Russo-Japanese War, Tōgō engaged the Russian navy at Port Arthur and the Yellow Sea in 1904, and destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, a battle which shocked the world.

During the Russo-Japanese War, Katō served as chief of staff to Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō on the battleship, assisting in Japan's victory at the Battle of Tsushima.

In the last few weeks before Japan's surrender, he sided with Prime Minister Suzuki and Foreign Minister Shigenori Tōgō in support of acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration in opposition to Minister of War Korechika Anami, Chief of Naval General Staff Admiral Soemu Toyoda and Chief of the Army General Staff General Yoshijirō Umezu.