↑ Asami Nagai, "Cities claim signature dishes cooked up in navy galleys"เก็บถาวร 2012-02-22 ที่ เวย์แบ็กแมชชีน, Yomiuri Shimbun, 5 February 2000. Retrieved on 2009-03-24. "As it happens, Togo had studied naval science in Britain from 1871 to 1878, so Shimizu reasoned he must have eaten beef stew occasionally. 'We concocted a story that Togo ordered the cooks to fix something similar to beef stew,' he said." In fact, beef stews were already known before that time in Japan.
↑ Asami Nagai, "Cities claim signature dishes cooked up in navy galleys"เก็บถาวร 2012-02-22 ที่ เวย์แบ็กแมชชีน, Yomiuri Shimbun, 5 February 2000. Retrieved on 2009-03-24. "City assembly members believed Togo was stationed at the Kure naval base from May 1890 to December 1891, and theorized that he likely introduced nikujaga to the navy diet at that time to prevent vitamin B deficiency."
