ABSTRACT
Britain initially welcomed the success of its ally in the Russo-Japanese War. In October 1905, the Japanese Minister of Marine declared that ‘Our navy ever since its creation has been modelled on that of Great Britain’.1
A British journalist wrote, ‘An admiral [Togo] who received his early professional training in England and served afloat in British men-of-war has won the greatest naval victory in history, not excepting Trafalgar, with men-of-war constructed almost exclusively in British shipyards’.2
