Word: kobe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...died and a rich uncle took him in. A Buddhist, Kagawa studied English in a Presbyterian English Bible Class. At 15 he became a Christian, was promptly disinherited. His health failing, he lived for a time in a poor fishing village, then for four years in the slums of Kobe. He went to the U. S., studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, earned expenses at odd times as a butler to various Manhattan families. Author of some 40 best-selling novels and devotional works, Toyohiko Kagawa earns $10,000 a year of which he spends $40 a month for himself...
...Kobe (to people whose Emperor is divine) : "Have you in Japan ever thought that in your imperialistic aims you may end as a republic...
...Kobe (advising Japan to take up birth control): "There is no reason why Japan should continue to expand and demand the right to overflow other countries which naturally resent an influx of a lower civilization...
Japanese militarists have sworn to take Ozaki's life; failure to do so would mean for them a tremendous loss of "face." No sooner was his steamer, the Terukuni Maru, inside Kobe harbor than police arrested three members of a terrorist club attempting to board the ship. Dr. Ozaki smiled at his two pretty daughters, then stepped down the gangplank to a waiting automobile. Other amateur assassins were on the dock. Two of them broke through a police cordon brandishing heavy cudgels, shouting "Wait, Ozaki, wait!" They too were arrested. Unruffled, Dr. Ozaki agreed to return to the ship...
...thousand Japanese and squads of police stood on the docks at Kobe last week to watch a brave little old gentleman come home to what he believes certain assassination. The performance began almost immediately...