Kōtarō Yoshida (other)
Kōtarō Yoshida may refer to: *Kōtarō Yoshida (martial artist) (1883–1966), Japanese martial artist *Kōtarō Yoshida (actor) is a Japanese actor and theatre director. He is currently affiliated with Horipro. Biography Yoshida spent six years in Osaka during his grade school days, and later grew up in Hino, Tokyo. While a student at St. Paul High School, he saw the ...

Kōtarō Yoshida (martial Artist)
was a 19th- to 20th-century Japanese martial artist. There have been claims that Yoshida was a member of the Kokuryukai, Amur River Society (also known as the Black Dragon Society), an ultra-nationalist organization of disenfranchised ex-samurai who promulgated "pan-Asiatic ascendancy" in line with the rise of Japanese imperialism. Others have asserted that he was a member of the Genyosha (the "Dark Ocean Society'), a previous organization founded by Toyama Mitsuru. However, the membership roles of both of these organizations are meticulously documented, and Yoshida's name does not show up in the registry of either the Genyosha or the Kokuryukai. Therefore, although it is quite likely that Yoshida had right-wing, nationalist leanings, he was not a significant figure in the major nationalist organizations of the late Meiji and Taisho periods. While by all accounts a prolific martial artist and teacher, there is little surviving documentation of Yoshida's life that has been tran ...
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