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...postwar punishment by the U.S. military government, but banished from political life, grateful Tomio Muto became an active Christian for the first time. He helped famed Christian Leader Toyohiko Kagawa start a magazine called Christian News (present circulation: 30.000). But when his old boss Tojo was hanged by the Allies in 1948, says Muto, "I felt the rope. Now I knew I must work for Christ. I definitely decided to become a minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Evangelism Is War | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...until after World War II. Shaken by Japan's defeat and his part in the Avar, he became a minister, as he said, "to atone for my sins." He made a name for himself as the editor of the weekly Christian News and, in 1950, the Rev. Toyohiko Kagawa, one of Japan's most famed Christian leaders, suggested that Muto try his hand at retranslating the Bible. He spent two years working from the Japanese version, checked with Greek, Latin and other texts. He plans to publish 10,000 copies of his edition each month, as long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Nyuzu for Japan | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...rampu for lamp (instead of tomoshibi). Otome (young maiden) is used instead of Shojo Maria (Virgin Mary).* Explained Translator Muto: "In postwar Japan, virgin is too often considered synonymous with sex." But Japanese ministers who saw the translation were happy at having a Scripture that everyone could read. Said Kagawa: "I am so pleased with this version that I jokingly told the ministers they would all find themselves without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Nyuzu for Japan | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

With reference to Simone Weil [TIME, Oct. 1] . . . she belongs to no religious group. She belongs to the "pure in heart" who alone see God. She belongs, like Isaiah and Jesus, like Schweitzer and Kagawa and Father Damien, to the human race-she belongs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 22, 1951 | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...Kagawa expressed his feeling about his homeland in a poem printed in the current issue of the Christian Century. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Send Us Men | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

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