Word: toyohiko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor unions, after 14 years of suppression, began to reorganize. One of their outstanding prewar leaders, the famed Christian minister and social reformer, Toyohiko Kagawa, 57, was appointed to a committee of "intellectuals" charged with revamping Japanese culture...
Japan's most-famed Christian is a near-blind pacifist named Toyohiko Kagawa (TIME, March 12). Of recent years, he has been accused of being a mouthpiece for Jap propaganda. Last week, in the Living Church, ex-Missionary L. S. Albright of the International Missionary Council suggested that Kagawa be not judged too hastily...
...Service correspondent that Christianity in Japan is much weaker today than it was in 1941; of the 350,000 native Japanese who were Christians before the war, about 100,000 are still church members. One who has stood firm, said the Korean, is the famed Japanese Christian leader, Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa (TIME, Sept. 30, 1940). Though it was widely rumored that he supported the government's warmongering, Kagawa actually was thrown in jail nearly two years ago for his open opposition...
...States have found financial salvation through the Plan. To Asheville, N.C., Lord's Acres' headquarters, churches in 47 States have written for advice. Many a group of missionaries on furlough has flocked to talk with the founders. An important visitor was Japan's No. 1 Christian, Toyohiko Kagawa. Lord's Acres now flourish in India, China, Brazil, Mexico and Japan, furnishing rupees, dollars, miireis, pesos and yen for the local missions...
Japan's No. 1 Christian has written a novel about the life of Jesus. Author is soft-faced, reedy-voiced, myopic Toyohiko Kagawa, who is also Japan's No. 1 writer, turns out quantities of poems, tracts, devotional books, novels on economic and agrarian subjects. Behold the Man (Harper; $2.50) is his most ambitious work...