Satokata Takahashi

Satokata Takahashi, born Naka Nakane (中根 中, Nakane Naka) was also known as Satokata Takahishi, Satokata Takahashiin, Taka Ashe, and his first name was sometimes rendered as Satakata. Takahashi was a retired major of the Imperial Japanese Army and member of the Black Dragon Society. According to FBI reports he was the instigator behind the Pacific Movement of the Eastern World, working through Ashima Takis.

Takahashi was rumored to be a financial backer of the Nation of Islam as a "foreign agent who formed alliances with black nationalists on behalf of Imperial Japan."

Takahashi was sent to the US in 1929, he formed mystico-political movements and recruited members.

When Mimo De Guzman was arrested by the FBI on July 30, 1942, he revealed that Takahashi was "a Japanese National" that was "the real power behind such groups as the Pacific Movement of the Eastern World, the Onward Movement of America and the Ethiopian Pacific Movement.

Elijah Muhammad was friends with Takahashi, and Takahashi's wife, Pearl Sherrod was formerly a member of the Nation of Islam.

In the 1940s Selective Service registrars noticed African Americans in Chicago, Detroit, and several other large cities were refusing to register under religious grounds and described themselves as Muslim. They also were not seeking an exemption as conscientious objectors. Around this same time the FBI was receiving reports that Japan was funding African American groups that were radical and wanted a racial revolution. In April of 1942, the FBI used undercover officers to infiltrate a group.

Through Takahashi, the Black Dragon society channeled financial aid to Black Muslim groups in the US.

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