Black Dragon Society

A Japanese nationalist group. Founded in 1901 (Meiji 34) by Uchida Ryohei and others who were outraged by the Triple Intervention. With Uchida as editor-in-chief and Toyama Mitsuru as advisor, the group descends from the Genyosha. While publishing magazines such as "Kokuryu" and "Toa Geppo" and advocating Greater Asianism and expansion into the continent, the group also pioneered imperialist Asian studies, such as conducting field surveys in various places and compiling maps. It had many ronin (masterless samurai) on the continent, and to some extent participated in the Philippine independence movement and Sun Yat-sen's Chinese revolutionary movement. On domestic issues, it was hostile to the trends of Taisho democracy, socialist ideas, and the labor movement, and was world-famous as one of Japan's leading right-wing groups. During the fascist period of the Showa era, the group leaned towards the movement to reform the nation, and in 1931 (Showa 6) was the birthplace of the Greater Japan Productive Party, which was founded by Uchida and others, and essentially merged with it. After Japan lost the war in 1946 (Showa 21), the group was dissolved by order of the occupying forces. It published such magnum opus works as "The Secret History of the Japan-Korea Union" and "The Chronicles of the Pioneers of East Asia."

[Makio Okabe]

"The Biography of the Patriot Uchida Ryohei" edited by the Black Dragon Club (1967, Hara Shobo)

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日本の国家主義団体。三国干渉に憤慨した内田良平(りょうへい)らが1901年（明治34）に結成。主幹に内田、顧問に頭山満(とうやまみつる)が就任、玄洋社(げんようしゃ)の系譜を引く。大アジア主義・大陸進出を唱えて『黒竜』『東亜月報』などの雑誌を発行する一方、諸方の実地調査や地図の編纂(へんさん)など、帝国主義的アジア研究にも先鞭(せんべん)をつけた。多くの大陸浪人を擁し、フィリピン独立運動や孫文(そんぶん／スンウェン)の中国革命運動にもある程度参画した。国内問題では大正デモクラシーの潮流や社会主義思想、労働運動に敵対し、日本の代表的右翼団体として世界的に有名であった。昭和のファシズム期には国家改造運動に傾斜し、1931年（昭和6）内田らが結成した大日本生産党の母胎となり、実質的にはこれに合流した。敗戦後の46年（昭和21）占領軍の指令で解散した。大著『日韓合邦秘史』『東亜先覚志士紀伝』などを刊行している。

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『黒竜倶楽部編『国士内田良平伝』（1967・原書房）』

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