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sorted to, more often information was obtained by em- 4 In popular culture
ploying prostitutes highly skilled in extracting information for their clients. The Gen'ysha even established a The Black Ocean Society is mentioned several times as a
training school for such agents in Sapporo in Hokkaid. front for the worldwide Cthulhu cult in game supplements
Another sphere of Gen'ysha activity was Korea. The released by Chaosium and Pagan Publishing in support of
Gen'ysha established a task force to prepare detailed to- their Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green role playing games.
pographical survey maps of Korea in secret, in anticipa- It is also presented as a Japanese intelligence agency in
tion of a future Japanese invasion. The Gen'ysha also the appendix for TSR's Top Secret.
actively supported the Donghak Movement, knowing that
the uprising was likely to draw China and Japan into a In the BattleTech science-ction wargaming franchise,
war. The assassination of Queen Min of Korea in 1895 Genyosha is the name of a pair of elite units in the miliis believed to have been conducted by Gen'yosha mem- tary of the Draconis Combine faction, which takes much
bers, at the instigation of the Japanese Minister in Seoul, of its cultural and thematic inspiration from feudal Japan.
Miura Goro.* [7]
Originally ignored by the Japanese military, during the
First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War, both
the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy
found the Gen'ysha s extensive intelligence gathering
network throughout East Asia to be invaluable. The
Gen'ysha network was also useful for the military in conducting sabotage activities behind enemy lines.
After the annexation of Korea in 1910, the Gen'ysha
continued to support eorts towards Pan-Asianism. Domestically, it formed a political party called the Dai Nippon Seisant (Greater Japan Production Party) to combat
the inuence of socialism in worker trade unions.
Towards its later years, the Gen'ysha was far removed
from its origins as a secret society, but had evolved almost to the mainstream of Japanese politics. A number
of cabinet ministers and members of the Japanese Diet
were known members, and mainstream political leaders,
such as Hirota Koki and Nakano Seigo emerged from its
ranks. It continued to exert considerable inuence on the
politics and foreign policy of Japan until the end of World
War II.
The Gen'ysha was disbanded by the American authorities during the Occupation of Japan.
Legacy
The Gen'ysha was the forerunner of a number of organizations which inherited and developed its ideology. It
also set the stage for the post-World War II ties between
right-wing politicians and yakuza organized crime syndicates.
Although modern yakuza share many of Gen'ysha's political and social philosophies, and although many of
Gen'ysha's members were drawn from yakuza ranks, the
Gen'ysha was primarily a political organization that often used criminal means to attain its goals, and was not a
yakuza itself, as some authors have claimed.
5 See also
Black Dragon Society
6 References
Min, Anchee (2003). The Last Empress. Houghton
Miin. ISBN 0-618-53146-7.
Gordon, Andrew (2003). A Modern History of
Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-511061-7.
Jacob, Frank (2012). Die Thule-Gesellschaft und
die Kokurykai: Geheimgesellschaften im globalhistorischen Vergleich. Wrzburg: Knigshausen &
Neumann. ISBN 978-3826049095.
Victor, George (2005). The Pearl Harbor Myth,
Rethinking the Unthinkable. Potomac Books Inc.
ISBN 1-59797-042-5.
Crowdey, George (2006). The Enemy Within, A
History of Espionage. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 184176-933-9.
7 Notes
[1] 1977
=History of Genyosha(written in Japanese)
[2] Crowdey, The Enemy Within, page 215
[3] Victor, The Pearl Harbor Myth, Rethinking the Unthinkable, page 128
[4] Crowdey, The Enemy Within, page 217
[5] Gordon, A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa
Times to the Present, page 92
[6] Harries, Soldiers of the Sun, The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army
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