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Black Dragon Description The Black Dragons were the Amur River Society (Kokuryu-kai) in 1930s and 1940s Japan. The Black Dragons were ultranationalists heavily involved in the conquest of China, and as spies and fifth columnists subverting nations targeted for conquest. The Black Dragons were active up and down the Pacific Coast of North and South America. In the United States, Black Dragons were a concern to Lieutenant Commander K.D. Ringle of U.S. Navy Intelligence and other security officials. On December 7, 1942; Black Dragons led Banzai! cheers at the U.S. Manzanar Relocation Center; the anniversary of the Japanese attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor in 1941. The Black Dragons led and fomented riots and carried out acts of violence at Manzanar, Tule Lake Segregation Center, and other sites where Japanese enemy aliens and Americans of Japanese ancestry were located. The Black Dragons and other ultranationalist organizations provided the nucleus for the formation of the postwar Yakuza organized crime syndicates. See (Dubro and Kaplan, pages 36, 67, 85 and 192). Also see Tony Matthews in Shadows Dancing, pages 43, 46 and 222-223. A number of Black Dragon members were in the Japanese government and many were charged as war criminals in 1945. Black Dragon Personalities * Ryohei Uchida: Founder of Black Dragons * Members of Japanese Ultranationalist and Yakuza Organizations, 1895-1945 * Koki Hirota Black Dragons and Japan's Annexation of Korea * According to several sources, Black Dragons conspired with Korean dissidents to assassinate Korea's Queen Min in 1895. Japan's Secret Societies and Ultranationalist Societies * Japanese Ultranationalist Organizations and Secret Societies, 1895-1945 Black Dragons and Pearl Harbor Violet Sweet Haven wrote that; The signal for war in the Pacific was given on August 26, 1941, at a session of the Black Dragon Society in Tokyo. Haven Black Dragons in the Movies * The Black Dragons captured the public imagination in the 1930s and 1940s. One movie starred that sinister reliable, Bela Lugosi in the role of a Nazi surgeon transforming six Japanese agents with plastic surgery. One such movie was The Black Dragons (1939). There were other Hollywood-style efforts as well as historical documentary films. * G-men vs. the Black Dragon (1943) * The Internet Movie Database: Black Dragons (1942) also documents the Bela Lugosi movie, The Black Dragons, but gives a 1942 release date. * The Internet Movie Database: Black Dragon of Manzanar (1966), a movie made for television. * A documentary film; Justice Under the Sun: Japanese War Crime Trials noted that unlike the Nazi Gestapo, the Black Dragons were not prosecuted for war crimes under The International Military Tribunal for the Far East. While the Gestapo was clearly an arm of official Nazi government terror, the Black Dragons were a secret society with political aims. Many of its members served in both industry and government including diplomatic posts and bureaucratic and military roles such as the Kempei Tai secret political police. Japanese War Crime Trials. The veiled relationship of secret societies such as Black Dragon to government and business exemplifies a Japanese social phenomena often described as Japan, Inc. Contact / Stats 27 December 1996: Page established, 0 visitors. May 17, 1997: counter reset, 0 visitors. May 30, 1997: counter reset, 0 visitors. Top visitors since 24 Sept. 2000. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
