Japanese city passes down tale of rescue of enemy Russian sailors

Residents of a city in southwest Japan continue to tell of how its people saved over 200 Russian soldiers from a sinking ship at the height of the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War, out of a desire to remember their ancestors' efforts to help those they were at war with.On May 27, 1905, the Russian Baltic Fleet's transport vessel the Irtysh sustained damage from Japanese battleships in waters off Tsushima Island, located between Kyushu and the Korean Peninsula.The vessel drifted to waters about 2 kilometers off the coast of Gotsu in Japan's western prefecture of Shimane and became immobilized th…READ FULL ARTICLE