![]() ![]() An urban legend has thus incarnated in Japan as real Togo beer. ![]() But that’s not where the story ends! A Japanese beer company bought the copyright of Amiraali's Togo label and started producing and selling it as Togo beer. This rumour was only a product of nationalistic Japanese people's imagination. Asano concludes that Amiraali with Togo's label doesn't glorify Japan's victory in the Russo-Japanese War. He found that Amiraali was discontinued when its parent company Pyynikki went bankrupt in 1992. It was just a variant of the local beer label Amiraali, with the face of world-famous naval admirals, including Zinovy Petrovich Rozhestvensky, the admiral of the Russian Baltic Fleet, printed on the cans. Akira Asano, a scholar of engineering who has lived in Finland, investigated the existence of Togo beer and reached the conclusion that it does not exist. It was almost impossible to review these urban legends. Thus, a 15-year-old Japanese boy failed to confirm the existence of Togo beer, but learned another important lesson: the internet is a dark place. He later escalated to ask for pictures of my face and certain body parts, using obscenities that a teenager living in a non-English speaking country had never heard. He then insisted I give him my address so he could send me Togo beer. One day, I asked a Finnish guy I met online about Togo beer. I saw this myth more than 15 years ago when I was both young and stupid enough to believe it. And in the Ottoman Empire, a street was named Togo in his honour. In Finland, they named a beer after Togo, the famous admiral who defeated the Russian Baltic Fleet. Non-European people all over the world and any nation with enmities against Russia were elated. In 1905, Japan defeated Russia and became the first non-European country to beat "Christian Europe". ![]()
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