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JAPAN: AE medal (2.90g), Fine to VF

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JAPAN: AE medal (2.90g), Fine to VF
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JAPAN: AE medal (2.90g), 24x22mm bronze Russo-Japanese War Memorial medalete, facing portrait of Togo Heihachiro // Japanese inscription, graded 80 by GBCA Grading Company, Fine to VF. Togo Heihachiro (1848-1934) served as a gensui or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and became one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. As Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, he successfully confined the Russian Pacific naval forces to Port Arthur before winning a decisive victory over a relieving fleet at Tsushima in May 1905. Western journalists called Togo "the Nelson of the East". He remains deeply revered as a national hero in Japan, with shrines and streets named in his honor.