Genyosha

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The Gen'yōsha (玄洋社) (Dark/Black Ocean Society) was a Japanese ultranationalist group formed in 1879 by Toyama Mitsuru. The name is taken from Genkai-Nada the gulf to the North East of Fukuoka, symbolising that the aim of the society was to develop Japanese conquest of the Asian land mass the other side of this stretch of water. From the outset it used violence and assassination against foreigners and politicians they did not like, largely recruiting from samurai, including figures involved in organised crime. It became the forerunner of a number of organisations which inherited and developed its ideology. Originally it was ignored by the government, but later acted as a secret society working closely with the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy.

It set the stage for the modernization of the yakuza and ties between right-wing politicians and organized crime.

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