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...showing interest. In the chest were German and Japanese propaganda, elaborate maps, photos of important U.S. bridges, and a photo of one of the victims in the company of a "Japanese imperial personage." There was also a Japanese flag with insignia which suggested that the notorious Black Dragon Society might reach as far as Peru...
Before Pearl Harbor, the Japanese colony in Peru numbered some 20,000. In 1942, Peru cracked down. Jap businesses were closed or transferred to Peruvians. Many Japs were deported to the U.S. It might be harder to deport the Black Dragon...
...flag of its conqueror. Before the conquering Japs came in 1895, Formosa flew the triangular Imperial flag of China's Ching Dynasty - a blue dragon on a yellow background...
Young and Cocky. Fighting Two started out with young and cocky confidence. Their emblem was a green dragon tearing a Jap flag to shreds. "Mom" Chung, the servicemen's devoted foster mother in San Francisco (TIME, Sept. 11), had designed it for them, especially for their leader, Commander William A. Dean Jr. They called themselves the "Rippers...
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...