The Gen'yōsha (玄洋社) (Dark/Black Ocean Society) was a Japanese ultranationalist group formed in 1879 by Toyama Mitsuru. The name is taken from Genkai-Nada the gulf to the North East of Fukuoka, symbolising that the aim of the society was to develop Japanese conquest of the Asian land mass the other side of this stretch of water. From the outset it used violence and assassination against foreigners and politicians they did not like, largely recruiting from samurai, including figures involved in organised crime. It became the forerunner of a number of organisations which inherited and developed its ideology. Originally it was ignored by the government, but later acted as a secret society working closely with the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy. // Nationalism is an ideology which holds that the nation, ethnicity or national identity is a fundamental unit of human social life, and makes certain political claims based upon that belief; above all, the claim that the nation is the only legitimate basis for the state, and that each nation is... 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Mitsuru Toyama was born in 1855 in the Fukuoka prefecture in southern Japan. ... Fukuoka Prefecture (福岡県 Fukuoka-ken) is located on Kyushu Island, Japan. ... World map showing Asia. ... Japanese samurai in armour, 1860s. ... The Imperial Japanese Army ((: 大日本帝國陸軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国陸軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun) was the official ground based armed force of Japan from 1867 to 1945. ... Ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy. ...

It set the stage for the modernization of the yakuza and ties between right-wing politicians and organized crime. This article may be confusing for some readers, and should be edited to be clearer. ... In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ...