"Pōrando kaiko" (Memory of Poland) is a poem by the Japanese poet Naobumi Ochiai. This piece of art gained popularity as a military song. Apparently, until 1945 Japanese children studied it in schools. The poem is part of a large poem "Kiba ryokō" (A journey on a horse). It was written to commemorate the feat of Major Yasumasu Fukushima, who in February 1892 visited the Polish lands during his horseback trip from Berlin to Vladivostok. It is believed that he was the first Japanese in Poland. Major Fukushima, as a military attaché in Berlin, decided to go on a lonely journey to collect information about Tsarist Russia and its army, because it was Russia that was then considered to be Japan's most formidable rival. The expedition was successful and on June 12, 1893, after traveling about 15,000 km, Fukushima reached Vladivostok, from where he returned to Japan. His journey lasted 487 days.

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