#49 - Gen'yōsha, The Black Ocean Society
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English - February 18, 2022 18:23 - 36 minutes - 50.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsHistory Society & Culture Places & Travel japan history murder news truecrime Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Gen'yōsha, or the Black Ocean Society, was a clandestine far-right organisation created in response to the Meiji Restoration. Disaffected samurai decided that, to make Japan great again, it had to force the Imperial Army to invade Korea, and then China. It did this by essentially being the CIA decades before the CIA were a thing.
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Sources:
The Enemy Within, by Terry Crowdy (2006) Historia Wikia Wikipedia