Toyohiko Kagawa - Brotherhood Economics, Famous Quotes

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Social reformer and evangelist, born in Kobe, C Japan. A convert to Christianity, he was educated at the Presbyterian College in Tokyo, and at Princeton Theological Seminary in the USA. Returning to Japan, he became an evangelist and social worker in the slums of Kobe. He was a leader in the Japanese labour movement, helping to found the Federation of Labour (1918) and the Farmer's Union (1921), and founded the Anti-War League (1928). After World War 2 he was a leader in the women's suffrage movement, and helped with the process of democratization. He wrote numerous books, including the autobiographical novel Before the Dawn (1920).

Toyohiko Kagawa (賀川豊彦 Kagawa Toyohiko, 10 July 1888–23 April 1960) was a Japanese pacifist, Christian reformer, and labour activist.

Kagawa was born in Kobe. Kagawa's life was the outworking of this lesson.

Having learned English from these missionaries, he became a Christian after taking a Bible class in his youth. Kagawa studied both in Japan at the Tokyo Presbyterian College, and in the United States. While studying there, Kagawa was troubled by the seminarians' endless concern for technicalities of doctrine.

After returning to Japan, Kagawa was arrested in 1921 and again in 1922 for his part in labour activism. After his release, Kagawa assisted in bringing universal adult male suffrage to Japan in 1925. Throughout this period, he continued to evangelize to Japan's poor and push for women's suffrage and a peaceful foreign policy.

In 1940, Kagawa made an apology to the Republic of China because of Japan's occupation of China. After his release, he went back to the United States in a futile attempt to prevent war between that nation and Japan. He then returned to Japan to continue his attempts to win women's suffrage.

At the end of the war, Kagawa was part of the transitional Japanese government that offered surrender to the United States. After his death, Kagawa was awarded the second-highest honor of Japan, induction in the Order of the Sacred Treasure.

Over 150 books were written by Kagawa throughout his career, most of the royalties therefrom being used to support his labour reform efforts.
Brotherhood Economics

Kagawa's economic theory, as expressed in the book "Brotherhood Economics," advocated that the Christian Church, Co-oeprative Movement, and Peace movement unite in a 'powerful working synthesis' to provide a workable alternative to capitalism, State Socialism, and Fascism.
Famous Quotes
On the morning of 1946, at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, before Emperor Hirohito, "Whosoever will be great among you...shall be the servant of all.