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
International Boy Scouts, Troop 1 from which the ribbon depends bears the words "FAITH AND FORTITUDE". International Boy Scouts, Troop 1 International Boy Scouts, Troop 1 was founded in 1911 as Japan's first Scout troop and, despite its early multinational character, was originally registered with the London headquarters of the Boy Scouts as "British Scouts in Foreign Countries", which was the only option at the time due to the Boy Scouts' "nationality requirement" and no international Boy Scout office. The troop's character, and Scoutmaster, changed and it was recognized as a mixed-nationality, or "international" troop in 1918. After formation of the World Scout Bureau, Troop