Toyohiko Kagawa

Toyohiko Kagawa

male, deceased (1960)
Toyohiko Kagawa was a Japanese pacifist, Christian reformer, and labour activist. Kagawa wrote, spoke, and worked at length on ways to employ...
Konishi Yukinaga

Konishi Yukinaga

male, deceased (1600)
Konishi Yukinaga was a Japanese (Christian) daimyo under Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He was the son of a wealthy merchant, Konishi Ryusa. In 1587, during...
Joseph Hardy Neesima

Joseph Hardy Neesima

male, deceased (1890)
was the founder of Doshisha University and Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts in Japan. Niijima was born in Edo (present-day Tokyo). In 1864,...

Uchimura Kanzō

male, deceased (1930)
was a Japanese author, Christian evangelist, and the founder of the Nonchurch Movement (Mukyōkai) of Christianity in the Meiji period and Taisho p...
Katayama Sen

Katayama Sen

male, deceased (1933)
Sen Katayama (1859-1933), born Yabuki Sugataro, was an early member of the American Communist Party and co-founder, in 1922, of the Japan Communist...
Nitobe Inazō

Nitobe Inazō

male, deceased (1933)
; 1 September 1862 - 15 October 1933) was a Christian, agricultural economist, author, educator, diplomat, and politician during Meiji period and...
Kazoh Kitamori

Kazoh Kitamori

male
Kazoh Kitamori was a Japanese theologian, pastor, author, professor, and churchman. His most famous work in the West is "The Theology of the Pain...
Oda Nagamasu

Oda Nagamasu

male, deceased (1622)
Oda Nagamasu (織田 長益), also known as Urakusai, was a brother of Oda Nobunaga, converted to Christianity in 1588 and the father of Nagamasa and Tosh...
Tetsu Katayama

Tetsu Katayama

male, deceased (1978)
Tetsu Katayama was a Japanese politician and the 46th Prime Minister from May 24 1947 to March 10 1948. He was born in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture,...
Kunikida Doppo

Kunikida Doppo

male, deceased (1908)
was a Japanese author of novels and romantic poetry during the Meiji period, noted as one of the inventors of Japanese naturalism.