Togo Heihachiro (1848-1934) was born into a feudal society that
had withdrawn into seclusion for 250 years. As a teenage samurai,
he witnessed the destruction wrought upon his native land by
British warships. As the legendary "Silent Admiral," he was at the
forefront of innovations in warfare, pioneering the Japanese use of
modern gunnery and wireless communication. Togo is best known as
the "Nelson of the East" for his resounding victory over the tsar's
navy in the Russo-Japanese War, but he also lived a remarkable
life, studying at a British maritime college and witnessing the
Sino-French War, the Hawaiian Revolution, and the Boxer Uprising.
After his retirement, he was appointed to oversee the education of
Emperor Hirohito.
This new biography spans Japan's sudden, violent leap out of its
self-imposed isolation and into the twentieth century. Delving
beyond Togo's finest hour at the Battle of Tsushima, it portrays
the life of a diffident Japanese sailor in Victorian Britain; his
reluctant celebrity in America, where he was laid low by Boston
cooking and welcomed by his biggest fan, Theodore Roosevelt; his
role in forgotten wars over the short-lived Republics of Ezo and
Formosa; and the accumulation of peacetime experience that forged a
wartime hero.
Jonathan Clements studied Chinese and Japanese at the University
of Leeds before receiving a master's degree from the University of
Stirling. He has written books on many prominent figures in Asian
history, including Marco Polo, Chairman Mao, Confucius, and the
Japan volume in the Makers of the Modern World series on Prince
Saionji.
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