Miyazaki Toten

Japanese revolutionary who funded Sun Yat-sen's Chinese republican movement against Western imperialism

Miyazaki Toten (1871-1922) bridged East Asian revolutions as a pan-Asianist samurai. This Kyushu-born idealist:

• Bankrolled 10+ failed uprisings in Guangdong
• Smuggled weapons via Taiwan straits
• Co-authored Sun Yat-sen's My Thirty-Three Years' Dream

His 1902 memoir My Thirty-Three Years' Dream revealed secret networks connecting Japanese socialists, Korean exiles, and Chinese republicans. Despite Meiji government surveillance, Miyazaki pioneered:

• First transnational Asian intelligence network
• Underground currency routes
• Covert paramilitary training camps

Modern historians credit his cross-cultural activism with preventing complete Western colonization of China. His granddaughter became post-war Japan's first female cabinet minister.