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...black-rimmed spectacles, thinning black hair and a rumpled black suit stepped off a B.O.A.C. plane in New York City last week. He was immediately swept up in a round of lunches, lectures and broadcasts that would last through December. Fortunately, he was used to such treatment. Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, 62, well known to U.S. lecture audiences before the war as the "foremost Christian leader in Japan," had just finished a six-month tour of Europe...
Thought-provoking words came last week from Japan's best-known Christian, Toyohiko Kagawa, who is currently evangelizing for Japan's United Church of Christ. Said he, in the Christian Century...
...faith must not lag behind contagious diseases in spreading." This was Toyohiko Kagawa's new watchword for the Japanese faithful. He gave it to the 3,500 delegates of the Christian churches of Japan who had assembled on the windswept campus of Tokyo's bombed...
...Kagawa's place is not unquestioned. Many Japanese Episcopalians and Catholics frown on what they consider his avid fondness for the limelight. Newly appointed to Japan's House of Peers, he is among those whose seating General MacArthur has ordered delayed, pending determination of their status as "desirable personnel." Headquarters rumor predicted last week that he would not be purged, despite an unfavorable report by SCAP's Civil Intelligence Section...
...Kagawa was unconcerned. Said he to reporters: "I have been an evangelist from the start. The Gospel never changes. If they bar me from office it is all right; I will still march...