東郷平八郎
Ayub Khan visited Japan as a guest of honor of Tōgō Heihachirō on February 16, 1907, where they celebrated an Asian victory against European imperialism following Japanese victory in the Russo-Japanese War. In early 1914, the Afghan King Habibullah Khan donated money, under a decree, to earthquakes that occurred in Japan, including the Senboku earthquake. Likewise, Japan was well received in Afghanistan.