Word: toyama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expecting to find even one Christian among [Okinawa's 15-man Advisory Council], I yet asked if any of them were Christian. No official of Military Government knew, but one remembered that a member by the name of Toyama refused a cigaret once and someone had explained that he did so because he was Christian...
...this activity is proceeding with no central organization, no church buildings, with few Bibles and hardly any hymnbooks. . . . The only Japanese Scripture in Ishikawa [Okinawa's capital] is ten pages of foolscap, which Mr. Toyama had written down from memory for his own devotions...
...Toyama's words: 'Send us missionaries. We need them. But tell your people to send us men who are not so much concerned as to whether or not we smoke or dance. Send us men who have a message of internationalism through Christian brotherhood, whose devotion is to truth and love, not passing fads and fancies...
Died. Mitsura Toyama, 89, longtime leader of Japan's arch-terroristic Black Dragon Society, often regarded as the secret center of the most determined Japa nese militarism; in Gotemba, Japan. Born into Japan's Samurai class, Toyama worked for recovery of Japan's military prestige,, became so feared that newspapers printed asterisks instead of his name. While the Black Dragon was credited with many of the political assassinations paving the way toward military domination of the Empire, frail, aloof Toyama kept largely to his mean wooden house near Fujiyama, was never convicted of a crime, seemed unwilling...
...aged, quiet fanatic Mitsuru Toyama, the gang boss who appears to be finally responsible for most of Japan's political assassinations for decades...