General Togi received the Pour le Merite from Imperial Germany in 1905 or 1906, depending on the source, but does anyone know what happened to his insignia? Is it on display somewhere? And are their any images of him wearing it all?
Given the Kaiser's dislike of the Japanese I was really surprised to see it listed that he received the honour, but Wilhelm II might have been spurred on given the General's martial success, and the fact that the British Order of Merit in its military class had been bestowed on several other leading Japanese military figures.
