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Ryōhei Uchida, founder of the Black Dragon Society. The Kokuryūkai was founded in 1901 by martial artist Uchida Ryohei as a successor to his mentor Mitsuru Tōyama's Gen'yōsha. [1] Its name is derived from the translation of the Amur River, which is called Heilongjiang or "Black Dragon River" in Chinese (黑龍江?), read as Kokuryū-kō in ...
Tōyama Mitsuru (頭山 満, 27 May 1855 – 5 October 1944) was a Japanese far right and ultra nationalist politician who founded secret societies called Genyosha (Black Ocean Society) and Kokuryukai (Black Dragon Society). [1] [2] Tōyama was an Anti Communist and a strong proponent of Pan Asianism. [3]
The Black Dragon Society is a non-fictional Japanese secret society, also known as the Kokuryūkai, which appears in DC Comics. The publisher first used the name in 1942's All Star Comics issue #12 (August 1942) as Japanese saboteurs. They were created by Gardner Fox and Jack Burnley. The same name and concept was also used by several other ...
Takahashi's Society for the Development of Our Own was a major organization in Black America responsible for the dissemination of pro-Japanese propaganda. [4] He recruited several thousand members to the Pan-Asian cause, most of them of African-American, Filipino, or East Asian descent.
Black Dragon Society (founded in 1901) Kokumin Dōmei (1932–1940) Tōhōkai (1936–1945) Imperial Rule Assistance Association (1940–1945) Ultranationalist figures
Kōtarō Yoshida (吉田 幸太郎, Yoshida Kōtarō, October 1883–1966) [1] was a 19th- to 20th-century Japanese martial artist.There have been claims that Yoshida was a member of the Kokuryukai, Amur River Society (also known as the Black Dragon Society), an ultra-nationalist organization of disenfranchised ex-samurai who promulgated "pan-Asiatic ascendancy" in line with the rise of ...
The Black Dragon Society is based on a real World War II organization of the same name; this society was not nearly as sinister as its comic book counterparts. Three different comics companies used the Black Dragon Society as villains in the 1940s: National Comics (DC Comics), Fawcett Comics, and Quality Comics. DC Comics came to own the other ...
After his return to Japan, in 1901, he founded the Black Dragon Society, an ultranationalist society which advocated a strong foreign policy towards Russia and Japanese expansionism towards Korea and Manchuria. [1] In 1903, he joined the Tairo Doshikai, a political group advocating war against Russia.