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I recently acquired this russo Japanese war sake cup.

Top text reads 征露紀念 Commemoration of Conquest of Russia

Bottom text reads 輜重兵第十大隊 10th Transport Battalion

Left text reads 高尾 Takao

Based on my research the 10th transport battalion had about 700 members during the Russo Japanese war and the last name 高尾 Takao was only around 0.03% of the population. 0.03% of 700 is only 0.21 meaning it's unlikely there was more than 1 person with the last name 高尾 Takao in the 10th transport battalion. I would very much like to identify the soldier who owned this 120 years ago. If anyone could tell me what sources to look at for something like this I would be very thankful, if I could find a 120 year old list of names of members of the 10th transport battalion i'd be so happy. Is this the kind of thing you contact a Japanese museum about?

Edit: More research tells me the 10th Division's home prefecture was Himeji and in Himeji the name Takao was a bit more common, so maybe there was more than 1 man named Takao in the 10th Transport

Edit 2: I have sent a multi paragraph email to the National Archives of Japan. If I'm ever able to identify Takao I will update this again.

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Japanese playing a clarinet for a group of amused Filipinos. This photograph was originally featured in The Sunday Times Magazine on April 16, 1967, as part of a series documenting World War II in the Philippines.

When the plane of this Japanese Vice Admiral had to make an emergency landing in Zhejiang, China, he committed suicide. Posthumously promoted to Admiral.

USS Enterprise burning furiously after a Japanese Special Attack aircraft struck the carrier at the forward elevator off Kyushu, Japan, 14 May 1945; photograph taken from USS Essex

Imperial Japanese Army 80th Infantry Brigade surrenders to the US 37th Infantry Division in Tuguegarao, Philippines. Major General Toshitaro Iguchi formally surrendered his command and his Samurai sword to Major General Robert S. Beightler during a ceremony. September 5, 1945

British soldiers congratulating Imperial Japanese troops on their recent victory over the Chinese Kuomintang. Shanghai , China, 22 November 1937.

Civilians walk past charred bodies in the aftermath of the atomic bomb being dropped upon Nagasaki City. August, 10, 1945. Photographer, Yamahata Yosuke.

Two Japanese soldiers from the Manila Naval Defense Force being transported aboard U.S. Army utility jeep of the 37th Infantry Division to interrogation area at the Bilibid Prison in Manila.

Japanese officers demonstrate origami, folding paper into birds and boxes, for Marine combat correspondents and photographers on Mille Island in September 1945 following the surrender.

高尾 Takao from the 輜重兵第十大隊 10th transport battalion 征露紀念 conquest of Russia Sake Cup

Far Eastern Liaison Office produced propaganda leaflets dropped on Japanese forces in New Guinea

Commemorative Sake cup set from the Taisho era

Local surrender ceremony in the Philippines. IJapanese officer reading the Daily Pacifican newspaper while 38th Division officers negotiate surrender terms in the Sierra Madre mountains east of Manila, resulting in the surrender of 40 Japanese soldiers. 29.08.1945

Captain Hiyotake Shigeno, a Japanese pilot who fought for France in WWI with two confirmed kills against German aircraft, poses aboard his Spad VII No. 1394 named "Wakadori".

Dr. Jose P. Laurel ,President of the Japanese-sponsored Second Philippine Republic, Benigno Aquino Sr., Speaker of the National Assembly, and Jose B. Laurel III questioned by S/Sgt. Van Millori, a Filipino serving in the U.S. Army, at Osaka Airport in Japan. September 15, 1945

"Nisei" guiding a group of Japanese officers during the surrender negotiations that took place in Luzon in 1945. The "Nisei" (second-generation Japanese-American) men in these scenarios were part of the Military Intelligence Service (MIS). Because they were fluent in both English and Japanese

Two beheaded Japanese heads on a table, 1945. Likely done by Filipino guerillas.

Australian soldiers holding a Japanese emblem (SNLF?) captured during fighting at Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.

Chinese civilians buried alive during Nanking massacre

Japanese soldiers with an Australian POW. Kavieng, New Guinea, 1942.

The Kriegsmarine pocket battleship Graf Spee. Photographed from the Imperial Japanese Navy's Heavy Cruiser Ashigara. Port of Kiel on May 30, 1937. Germany.