Word: toyama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Black Dragon organization flourishes. It is not defunct. It is no myth. The 87-year-old founder, Mitsuru Toyama, is not doddering...
...current newsreel, The Mask of Japan, reveals for the first time, to my visual knowledge, Toyama in person, leading thousands of Japs, and a score of Nazis, in cheering for the Emperor. It is perhaps the only sound track of Toyama's voice...
...Bearded Toyama's Black Dragon headquarters for years sheltered revolutionaries and murderers from other lands. Mr. Byas should recall instantly the haven given to Ricarte of the Philippines, the man who returned to Manila early this year to follow up Japanese occupation of the islands. Not to be overlooked are two Hindus, both married to Japanese, and their maintenance underwritten by Toyama and his followers. They are Rash Behari Bose, and K. Sabarwal, leaders of many mass meetings where Japanese-inspired anti-England haranging was engineered...
...find the Black Dragon boys in the dull, stuffy, British-style Tokyo Club, drinking gin & bitters. Toyama's men were eating raw fish and seaweed in their gathering places in Shinjuku and Mukojima, where, I am certain, Mr. Byas did not have the interesting fortune to enter upon the conclaves and hear the plots. The locale and character are as different as Sherman Billingsley's Stork Club and a Harlem honky-tonk marijuana parlor...
There, in Yokohama's Chinatown, The Viper ran a restaurant, picked up a few more yen by teaching Spanish and Filipino dialects at the Imperial University of Tokyo. Under the tutelage of hoary old Mitsuru Toyama, founder of Japan's fabulous Black Dragon Society, The Viper organized Kapatiran Anak Ng Bayan, a secret society whose aim was to foment uprisings in the Philippines...