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...Died. Toyohiko Kagawa, 72, Japan's foremost Christian social worker, the son of a nobleman and his concubine, who was converted to Christianity at 15, went to live in the harrowing slums of Kobe where he contracted both tuberculosis and trachoma helping the poor; of a heart ailment; in Tokyo. Kagawa organized labor unions and cooperatives the length and breadth of Japan, bitterly denounced his government for attacking China, though he later supported the war against the U.S. He continued his good works among Japan's masses after the war in spite of opposition from the Communists...
...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...
...seriously 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...
...with 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...