Genyōsha
Sign in to savethumb|Tōyama Mitsuru (center) and [[Yoshio Kodama (first row, second from right) among a meeting of the Dark/Black Ocean Society (Gen'yosha), 1929]] The was an influential Pan-Asianist group and secret society active in the Empire of Japan.
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- Foundation as the Koyōsha
- Foundation as the Gen'yōsha
- Nationalism
- Legacy
- In popular fiction
- See also
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thumb|Tōyama Mitsuru (center) and [[Yoshio Kodama (first row, second from right) among a meeting of the Dark/Black Ocean Society (Gen'yosha), 1929]] The was an influential Pan-Asianist group and secret society active in the Empire of Japan.
==Foundation as the Koyōsha== Founded as the Koyōsha by Hiraoka Kotarō (1851–1906), a wealthy ex-samurai and mine-owner, with mining interests in Manchuria, Tōyama Mitsuru, and other former samurai of the Fukuoka Domain, it agitated for a return to the old feudal Japanese order with special privileges and government stipends for the samurai class.:215 The Koyōsha participated in the various ex-samurai uprisings in Kyūshū against the early Meiji government, but after the suppression of the Satsuma Rebellion in 1877, it abandoned its original goals, joined the pro-democracy Freedom and People's Rights Movement, and formed a political organization to agitate for a national parliament instead.