VADM Viscount Naganari Ogasawara
VADM Viscount Naganari Ogasawara was Togo’s aide and Hirohito’s teacher and advisor, taking a break between the two to command Tokiwa in 1912. He passed in 1958, aged 90, having spent 56 years in service. He was one of the last surviving Tsushima vets.
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