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...Ministers. He was born in Fukuoka on the island of Kyushu 56 years ago. Kyushu is as solidly conservative as Maine. As a sober little schoolboy Koki Hirota was an ardent member of a super-nationalist secret society known as the Genyosha or Black Sea Society. Its leader, Mitsuru Toyama, now 78, is still politically active, head of the far more formidable Black Dragon Society whose members for the most part are not schoolboys but army officers. Koki Hirota is still his good friend, but he has grown smoother and wiser. After studying at the Imperial University in Tokyo, Koki...
...vigorous and unspent" substitute, merry-eyed little Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, 55, is well tuned to Araki's voice. He began his career as a protégé of two famed patriots (reactionaries). Mitsuru Toyama and Ryohei Uchida (no kin to the Count), now president of the notorious Black Dragon Society. But last week the Foreign Office hastily assured foreign correspondents that the new Minister's "ideas are practical and moderate as befits a statesman who has served in Washington and Europe." And Hirota himself followed this up by calling "hopeful . . . the outlook for amity between Japan...
...Mitsuru Toyama, head of the Black Dragon Society?an organization active in agitation against the U. S. after the passage of the recent U. S. exclusion bill?that permission was accorded to exhume the unknown patriot and give him what is virtually a national burial. In the military cemetery, a great tomb will be erected over the grave, and its position will be near the last resting place of General Nogi who distinguished himself in the Russo-Japanese War and who committed hara-kiri on the night of the funeral of the Emperor Meiji...