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| | The Kim Ok-kyun Affair |
 | | Toyama Mitsuru, an ardent ultranationalist, organized a powerful para-military organization comprised of organized crime figures and men with far right-wing political beliefs whose aim was to tap directly into the samurai sentiment for expansion abroad and authoritarian rule at home. |
 | | By 1891, Genyosha had taken control of the Japanese army, the intelligence service and the government bureaucracy through flmail, extortion, terror, prostitution, gun-running, assassination, and intellectual persuasion. |
 | | Trying to avoid a needless conflict, Foreign Minister Mutsu argued in the Japanese Diet that the murder of one Korean citizen by another in China was not a legal Japanese concern, and that it certainly did not constitute a casus belli. |
| www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C27/E2701.htm (2802 words) |
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