Scout Association of Japan something of the "Kenjinsha", an old time youth movement. During this period homegrown Japanese troops began to develop and existed alongside expatriate troops in Yokohama, Kobe and Osaka. Hiroshi Koshiba started a Tokyo-based group in 1913. At the time of the coronation of the Taishō Emperor in 1915, Scouts were organized in Tokyo, Shizuoka, Kyoto and Hokkaido. In 1920 three delegates, Toyomatsu Shimoda, Hiroshi Koshiba, and Richard Suzuki, attended the 1st World Scout Jamboree at Olympia, London. Shimoda and Koshiba were both adults and, when they met Richard Suzuki aboard ship and learned he was a Scout, they invited him
Red Fox James organize the Indian Boy Scouts in America, at the United States Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. By 1920, Red Fox was the Head Chief of the American Indian Tepee Christian Mission, a cooperative of the American Christian Missionary Society. In January of 1915. Organized The First American Indian Boy Scout Troop; Boy Scout Troop 1 Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Red Fox James was a supporter of giving women the right to vote, because "In the early days, before the white-man came, the Indian women had equal voice in the council, and even was [sic] elected chieftain..." On July 4th 1917 Red Fox