The Kenkokukai was a Japan

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ese secret society

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 founded in April 1926. It was formed by Motoyuki Takabatake (高畠素之), a nationalist Marxist National Socialist, Shinkichi Uesugi (上杉慎吉) and Bin Akao (赤尾敏) of the Nagoya Anarchists

Nagoya Anarchists

The Nagoya Anarchists were a group of anarchists warriors in Nagoya, Japan that included Bin Akao and Susumu Fukuda. In 1918 they joined the Rousoukai, The Society for Old Combatants. A group that gravitated towards ultranationalism, they became monarchists but retained a fierce anti-capitalist...

. It proclaimed for its object "the creation of a genuine people's state

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 based on unanimity between the people and the emperor". Its state socialist programme included the demand for "the state control of the life of the people in order that among Japanese people there should not be a single unfortunate nor unfully-franchised individual". The organisation embraced Pan Asianism declaring "The Japanese people standing at the head of the coloured people

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, will bring the world a new civilisation." It was at one time in favour of universal suffrage

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It worked in close contact with the police to break the miners strike

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 in Totsige, and other strikes in factories in Kanegafuchi, tramway workers in Tokyo

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 and tenant farmers in Gifu Prefecture

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. In this period it had about 10,000 members. Wesugisoon withdrew in 1927, and Takabatake supporters left following his death in 1928. Tōyama Mitsuru

Toyama Mitsuru

was a right-wing political leader in early 20th century Japan and founder of the Genyosha nationalist secret society.-Early life:Tōyama was born to a poor samurai family in Fukuoka City in Kyūshū...

(頭山満), of the Black Dragon Society

Black Dragon Society

The was a prominent paramilitary, ultranationalist right-wing group in Japan.-History:The Kokuryūkai was founded in 1901 by Uchida Ryohei, and was descended from the Genyōsha. Its name is derived from the Amur River, called Heilongjiang or "Black Dragon River" in Chinese , read as Kokuryū-kō in...

(黒龍会) was appointed honorary chairperson, and Nagat a former Police Chief vice-chair. Others of this new influx included Ikyhara, Kida, Sugimoto. Akao was director of the league, which organised gangs of strike breakers and in 1928 bombed the soviet embassy. Their paper Nippon Syugi was virulently anti-communist

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 with slogans such as Death to Communism

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, to Russia

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n Bolshevism and to the Left parties and workers' unions.

See also List of Japanese nationalist movements and parties