C11736 Miss Shizue Hikoru, General Secretary, Japan Y.W.C.A.
C11737 Tsunetoro Miyakoda, one-time General Secretary of National
Christian Council and Principal of Aoyama Gakuin, now Secretary (of)
International Peace Fellowship.
C11738 Chaplain Takahara Tokamatsu, rector of All Saints Chapel, St.
Paul's University, inspecting destructed cross on altar, Tokyo.
C11739 Mr. and Mrs. Masatoke J. Fujita. He is City Secretary of Tokyo
Y.M.C.A.
C11740 Mrs. Fujita and children.
C11741 Tokujiro Yamazaki, who befriended missionaries during the war at
great cost, Tokyo.
C11854 Koishi Yoshida, head of the Religious Affairs Section of the
Japanese Ministry of Education and Author of the new Religious Corporations
Ordinance.
C11855 "Merry Christmas," reflected in the moat of the Imperial Palace,
Tokyo, from the Christmas decorations on the Doi Ichi Building, Gen.
MacArthur's headquarters.
C11856 People leaving the Presbyterian Church in Setagaya Word, Tokyo.
Dec. 30, 1945.
C11857 Dr. Kagawa in his room.
C11858 Dr. Kagawa in a familiar pose.
C11859 Dr. Kagawa at his home on the outskirts of Tokyo.
C11890 Forlorn and tragic are the figures which go about Hiroshima today,
picking through the rubble.
C11891 Atom bombed Hiroshima.
C11892 The empty shell of the Methodist Church in downtown, Hiroshima.
C11893 The Hiroshima Methodist Church was from 200 to 300 yards from the
zero-point where the atomic bomb on Aug. 5, 1945.
C11894 One of the missionary residences at Kwansei Gakuin, Methodist Girls
School in Nagasaki. Burst at the seams by the atom-bombing on Aug. 5,
1945, these buildings will be repaired.
C11895 Younger students of Kwassui Gakuin get their orders for the morning
and are about to go out to help set their campus in order, Nagasaki.
C11974A Campus of Fukuoka Girls School was two-thirds destroyed in fire-
bombing of the city. School still held in makeshift barracks-type
buildings. Fukuoka, Japan.
C11975 Campus of Fukuoka Girls School. The main building were all burned.
C11976 Only the foundation stones of this building remain at Fukuoka Girls
School, Fukuoka, Japan.
C11977 The former missionary's residence above the burnt-out campus of
Fukuoka Girls School, Fukuoka, Japan.
C11978 The imperial symbol still stands on the campus of Fukuoka Girls
School.
C11979 Miss Yoshi Tokunaga, Principal of Fukuoka Girls School, Fukuoka.
C11980 Miss Yoshi Togunaga, Principal of Fukuoka Girls School, Fukuoka.
C11981 Takuo Matsumoto, President of Hiroshima Girls School. His wife and
over 300 of his students were killed when the atomic bomb destroyed his
school.
C11982 Dr. Minoru Toyoda, President of Aoyama Gakuin, Methodist College in
Tokyo.
C11983 Dr. Minoru Toyoda, President of Aoyama Gakuin, Methodist College in
Tokyo.
C11984 This grillwork cross forms the chancel wall of the chapel at Tokyo
Women's Christian College.
C11985 The Lutheran Theological Seminary, Tokyo, used since the
unification of Protestants in Japan (1940) as the Women's Theological
Seminary for all denominations.
C11986 Sgt. Oliver Cromwell.
C11997 Examining obi brought back from Japan. Dr. John R. Mott, Mrs. J.D.
Bragg, Bishop Baker, and Dr. R. Diffendorfer.
C15992 Mrs. S. Takeboyashi. Week of Dedication. 1951.
C17116 Yohosuka Community Center Library. 1951.
C17160 Yokohama, Dr. Laton E. Holmgren delivered the Easter sermon at
sunrise services held in the Open Air Theater Yokohama Park. Dr. Holmgren
is presently lecturing on Democracy throughout universities in Japan. 1951.
C18385 Mobile Hospital gift to Okinawa from the Church go-era of the First
Methodist Church, Glendale, Calif.
C18286 Same as C18385
C18393 Dr. Linus Bittner and Akiro Oshiro of Hushi, Okinawa, in front of
mobile hosp. presented to Okinawa by the people of First Methodist Church
of Glendale, Calf.
C19515 Chas. Germany presents dictionary of the Bible and other books to
M. Y. F. of Church in Kamojima - the gift is from youth of Linwood
Methodist Church, Okla. City.
C19516 A quartet of the Church youth group in Kamajima.
C19517 Mr. and Mrs. Kyozo Iwai of Wakimachi before the tokanoma in their
home Mr. Iwai is a Christian leader.
C19518 Kobe - Rev. John B. Cobb speaks of dedication of Palmore English
Inst. (at new bldg.)
C19519 Kobe - a "yubiningyo" (finger doll) show at a kindergarten.
C19520 Miss S. Deguchi and Miss R. Noda prepare the Japanese brush to
write anouncements fro youth meeting at Kamajima Church.
C19521 Rev. Seimatsu Kimura of Kamajima.
C19522 Rev. Kimura preaching at the Easter service in Kamajima.
C19523 Little girls in their finest Kimonos with their mothers at the
kindergarten program.
C19524 Little girls join in a dance at the kindergarten.
C19525 Mr. and Mrs. Kikus Hamaguchi, Christian lay workers Shishikui
Takushima Prefecture.
C19526 Prayer time before mid-morning snack at nursery school in Shishkui -
this is the work of Mr. and Mrs. Hamaguchi.
JapOP1-7:1 "On the Road," Mr. Will Schwarts, Mr. Elder, and Mrs. Bull in
the basha.
JapOP1-7:2 A snake-breeder's front window in Nagoya City. This snakes is
the mamushi, the only poisonous snake in Japan. It is bred by this man by
thousands to be used as medicine. When grown it is put into a bottle such
as those here used. Alcohol enough to fill the bottle is pured in and
after standing for a time it is used for both external and internal
maladies. This is Nagoya in the 20th century.
JapOP1-53:1 A sketch of the outer gate of the City of Shuri Loo Shoo on
the day when Commodore Perry, in 1854, visited the King in his own island
city.
JapOP1-55:1 The avenue lined with stone lanterns, Nara, Japan.
JapOP1-55:2 "Kei ten ai jin," the famous motto of General Saigo Takamori,
one of the greatest men of Satsuma, Kyushu, Japan. (Meaning love men and
reverence Heaven) This was written by Gen. Saigo himself and is one of the
treasures of Kagoshima, where he lived and died.
JapOP1-56:1 Festival in the village of Katena Loo Choo Islands. (Note the
straw roofs of the houses) Methodism has a very promising work here.
JapOP1-56:2 On an evangelistic tour in Kyushu, Japan. The owner of the
machine is Rev. Clark, Mryazaki, Kimura Seimatsu. "The Billy Sunday" of
Japan is to his right.
JapOP1-57:1 Funeral at Rev. E.R. Bull's of a boy 18 years of age. His
mother and father and sister were baptized in the home of Rev. Bull,
Kagoshima, Japan. All the services of this new church, even funerals are
held in the home of the missionary. The casket was about 36 inches square,
as the dead was buried sitting in Japanese fashion.
JapOP1-57:2 Mrs. Bull's singing class (wife of Rev. E.R. Bull) of
Kagoshima, Japan. The students are from the city middle school for girls
and from the private middle school of Baroness Shimadzu. A number from
this class have been baptized.
JapOP1-58:1 The Y.M.C.A. Hall in the plant of the Fuji Tea Co. Shizuoka,
Japan.
JapOP1-58:2 Teh ladies of the Methodist Church, Naha Loo Choo Islands
(Note the difference between the native Loo Chooans and Japanese ladise.
In rear at right Church and the two story parsonage, Naha. There is a debt
of $1,250 on this property with 10% interest on the loan.)
78464 Wrapped together like one two-headed child they live. The older
sister shows the one who followed her the world over her shoulder, thus
making it a perpetual game of leap frog. If the older sister runs on
plays, the head of the little one bobs as perpetually as the clock pendulum.
JapOP1-62:2 Two visitors enter the sick room. Note one carries his
Japanese lantern, "We are so sorry that it hurts."
JapOP1-63:1 Children at play in front of a Shinto Shrine. The yard almost
always to be found in front of the Shrine and Buddhist Temple furnishes the
children of Japan their best palyground, which makes it the most natural
thing in the world for the child to step into the temple, or the Sabbath
School, conducted by the priests on Sundays. We Christians can give the
Japanese churches funds, in order that they can success fully complete with
the temples. Kindergartens, playgrounds, and gymnasiums must not be
neglected in order to win the youth of the Far East.
60009 Another group in the yard surrounding the shrine.
JapOP1-65:1 Iris in bloom at Horikiri. Best in early June.
JapOP1-65:2 In Greek mythology this thought is to be found, namely as the
rainbow unites earth and heaven, in like manner is iris the messenger of
the gods and men.
JapOP1-65:3 In Greek mythology this thought is to be found, namely as the
rainbow unites earth and heaven, in like manner is iris the messenger of
the gods and men.
JapOP1-65:4 Same as above.
67408 Flowers in Japan.
JapOP1-65:6 The hydrangea. Thirty species are to be found in Japan,
mountains of India, and in North America.
JapOP1-67:1 Wisteria flowers over a walk. Three girls, one with Japanese
amagasa (umbrella).
64230 Kameido in Tokyo, where, "The Perfectly Free and Heaven Filling
Heavenly Divinity," is worshipped. These wisteria blossoms make Kameido
one of the show places of the captital.
JapOP1-67:3 A garden enlivened by purple wisteria.
64935 Loo Chooan old lady. Note the single hairpin which may be of wood
brass, or silver, according to the caste of the lady. Part of her garments
are made of the fine strands of the banana leaf.
JanOP1-72:1 Loo Chooan old man. Note his hair and the solitary pin.
JanOP1-74:1 A Loo Chooan woman grinding beans. Note when she pulls the
string the upper movable piece revolves and thus grinds the beans in the
hollow center.
JanOP1-74:2 Catching the deadly "Habu" snake in the Loo Choo Islands,
Japan.
1870 A jar in which the Loo Chooan dead are buried.
62701 Two out for a "riki" ride.
JanOP1-75:3 Japanese pilgrim returning from a visit to the top of peerless
Fuji. The nine care takers in charge of as many rest stations on the
ascent, burn on the walking sticks the names of their stations to show that
the trip has actually been made. The ascent is usually made between the
15th of July and 15th of Sept. as c***s fear taking the trip as long as
there is any snow on the grass. In former years women were debarred from
ascending to the top of all these sacred peaks. In some localities the
rule is still enforced. The height is 12,365 ft. Last eruption took place
between Dec. 16, 1707 and Jan. 22, 1708.
JanOP1-76:1 Two pilgrims on the famous road nearing Nikko probably
proceeding to the most beautiful shrines in Japan and to the graves of
Ieyasu and Iemitsu.
81973 Three girls by a lantern. Note the reflections, so noticeable in
Japan.
JanOP1-77:1 An athletic stunt in Japan. The round bun must be eaten
without touching it with the hands, at the completion of which the
contestant passes on to another task which awaits him.
JanOP1-77:2 On certain festival days the boys build shrines which they
carry and during the day try to destroy those of the neighboring village
boys, but preserve their own intact.
JanOP1-80:1 A line of bashas in Loo Choo Islands. These are the carriages
in which the missionary travels when doing country work. The springs are
practically worthless.
JanOP1-80:2 Japanese at their "Newport" bathing place.
JanOP1-80:3 Beautiful fall near Kyoto.
JanOP1-80:4 One of the most exciting things in Japan is to go down the
river at Kyoto or Kumagawa of Kyushu. Few sports have more thrills than
running the rapids of these swift river.
JanOP1-83:1 Reiheiishi Kaido, Nikko. The highway lined with ancient
cryptomerias for twenty miles. So called the Mikado used to travel along
it, bearing gifts from his Imperial master to be offered at the mausoleum
of Ieyasu.
69644 The Bonito fish being separated according to grade in Loo Choo.
JanOP1-87:2 Captain W.H. Hardy, one of the two survivors of the Perry
Expedition to Japan in 1853-4 as he appeared when visiting our Aoyama
Gakuin, Tokyo.
JanOP1-88:1 Captain W.H. Hardy shaking hands with Baron Shibusawa while
Count Okura looks on. Capt. Hardy came to Japan in 1853-4 with Commodore
Perry and revisited Japan in 1918.
JanOP1-88:2 Statue of Il Kamon No Kami, signer of the first treaty which
opened up Japan to foreign intercourse. Erected in Yokohama.
JanOP1-95:1 First process of packing tea, Fuji Tea Co., Shizuoka, Japan.
JanOP1-95:2 Weighing and nailing up boxes of tea, Fuji Tea Co., Shizuoka,
Japan. This company carries on various kind of welfare work. (See
Christian Movement) They take the nature of a night school, lectures base
ball contests, tennis tournaments, picnics for all the employees.
JanOP1-96:1 Girls preparing the envelopes in which the tooth powder is
sold.
JanOP1-96:2 A school in the Lion Tooth Powder Co. plant. On left side
they are studying the Japanese Reader. The one standing is reading. The
girls to the right of the aisle are studying arithmetic.
JanOP1-102:1 Other welfare buildings, Gunsei Seishi Kwaisha, Ayabe.
69505 Factory meeting of the Fuji Boseki Company, Oyama Shizuoka Province, Japan. In 1903, the Japan Meth. Church started two small preaching places here with fair success. In April, 1917 Baron Morimura and a reformed criminal, Y. Kochi (a man of wonderful experience and power) came to this village and held meetings which resulted in the conversion of the Company's
manager Mr. Watanabe. This has resulted in the whole factory being opened up to Christian work. From Nov. 1917 to May 1918, Rev. Hiroshi Serizawa had sold 1,300 copies of the Sacred Word, witnessed the conversion of 150, and had 200 inquirers come forward. His church which has been largely developed from among the employees of this company, carries on a Y.M.C.A.,
a Temperance Society and other forms of Christian Work.
69647 Miss Tomi Faruta, Conference Evangelist for Women's Foreign Missionary Society in Eastern
Japan.
69221 Madame Hirooka Osako, Osaka, Japan. One of the richest women of
Japan; member of the famous Mitsui family, an evangelist who has toured
Japan many times preaching with earnestness the Gospel of Christ. She
writes, "There is no way to awaken the world of women, but to zealously
give them the religion of Christ."
44133 Kamematsu Oki Omuta, Kyushu, Japan - a converted Christain.
64945 Col. Hirayama Haruhisa, Student of Aoyama Theological School, Tokyo,
aged 46 years. Desires to become a preacher of Meth. Church. Works as an
evangelist with tongue and pen. Holder of Order of the Golden Kite was
wounded in Russo-Japanes War. Was General Staff Officer in headquarters of
General Kuroki. Was retired in 1916 from standing army. He believes that
it was because of his Christian Faith. Now appointed by the Japanese
Y.M.C.A. with Dr. Nitobe on the commission to carry funds and a message of
cheer and fellowship to the soldiers of the Allies in France.
69222 Baron Morimura Ichizaemon, Tokyo. Writes, "Altho I have gained
wealth and fame as a foreign trade merchant in my 82 years, I believe that
the most successful step I have ever taken was when I became Christian at
the age of 80." The Baron in many times a millionaire. He was baptized
recently by a convered murderer Y. Kochi. This criminal spent 23 years in
prison, was converted and has been for many years one of the great
evangelistic forces in Japan.
69649 Nagao Hampei, Tokyo, at his office desk in the offices of the
Imperial Railroad. His testimony; "Faith without works is dead." - Feb. 6,
1918, Tokyo.
69504 Miss Uta Hayashi, Osaka, Japan. Great Temperance worker, enemy of
the Japanese Red Light Districts; and upbuilder of homes for girls.
JanOP1-105:3 Mrs. Yajima Kaji (to the left holding the back of the chair) -
Decorated with the Order of the Crown, Sixth Order, by order of the
Empress. Great Temperance worker.
JanOP1-106:1 Hampei Nagao, Superintendent of the Central Division of the
Imperial R.R. and a strong leader of the Temperance Hosts. June 1918.
55541 Ebara Soroku, member of the House of Peers. In May 1918 this grand
old man of Christianity had his 77th birthday. At that time a number of
his prominent friends presented him with a gift of $100,000 for the Ebara
Educational Fund. Mr. Ebara has given so much of time and money to
Christian Education that he has reduced himself to a comparatively poor
man. Ten years ago he took up a school which was being disposed of and has
made it one of the most popular in Tokyo. He is the possession of the
decoration called " The Sacred Treasure: Third Order" but he is often found
riding in the third class railroad cars on his way to hold some
evangelistic service.
69503 Hon. Ando Taro, Christian, decorated by the Emperor and leader of
Temperance Work of any note in Japan. Publisher of the National Temperance
Magazine "Kuni No Hikari" (Light of the Country). Note page 1, 2, and 3 in
the magazine Kuni No Hikari, Mar. 1, 1917, telling of the church built and
given to Japan Meth. Church.
69219 Vioscount Kentaro Kaneko, born in Kyushu, graduate of Harvard
University in 1878, with a degree of L.L.D. Chief Secretary to House of
Peers, Vice Minister, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, Minister of
Justice and now President of the American Japanese Association. One of the
lovers of America. While in New England he searched every church in Boston
seeking to find the truth but when he left the hub, a graduate from
Cambridge, his mind was in confusion and discord. He now believes that
Buddhism is a superior philosophy but that Christianity is superior as a
life. This great statesman is constantly doing all he can, to extent the
influence of Christianity.
77569 Dr. V. Uzaki, President of Chinzei Boys School, Nagasaki, Japan and
his wife and children. Considered by Many to be the most capable man in
all Japanese Methodism.
64940 Umikichi Yoneyama, Tokyo Director of the Mitsui Bank. Donor of
$1,000 towards the new home built by Japanese friends for Bishop Merriam C.
Harris, Aoyama, Tokyo. Student in Aoyama Gakuin in 1884-85.
69658 Baron Kanda Naibu, Tokyo. Emeritus Prof. of Tokyo Higher Commercial
School, member of House of Peers. Born in 1857. Proceeded to U.S.A.
Studied in America until 1884. After graduation at Amherst Mass. was
appointed Professor in Tokyo Imperial University. Holder of 3rd rank and
2nd order of Order of Rising Sun Decoration. He cherishes the memory of
American life having spent his youth among the best of educated New England
people. Further, "The necessity of belief of some sort is being felt more
and more by all educationalists in Japan. Aoyama Gakuin should develop
into a Christian University of the liberal type, and not an old fashioned
mission school. This kind of Christian education should be encouraged and
expanded."
69659 Hon. Nemoto Sho, Tokyo. "The Neal Dow" of the Japanese Temperance
Movement; Prominent Christian. Wearer of Imperial Decoration; for many
years a fighter on behalf of righteousness in the Imperial Diet. A
Methodist.
69660 Baron Sakatani Yoshiro, Tokyo. New Financial Adviser to the Chinese
Government. He writes:"Although I am not a Christian, I believe that
Christianity is the best religion in the world at present and I very much
approve of its doctrines."
64941 Kunisawa Shimbei, Vice President of South Manchurian Railway,Dairen. Alumnus of Aoyama Gakuin, Tokyo, and perhaps holds the highest positon of any Alumnus of Aoyama. Aoyama, of which Methodism is justly proud, could accept only 200 out of 390 in the MIddle School Dept. in 1918. Why cannot every boy be given what he wants? Dr. Goucher paid $6,000 which was then about the same figure in Yen, for the 25 acres in the fall of 1882. Was it not a good investment? $500,000 could be obtained for it today. The Goucher faith much continue.
64942 Ume Tsuda with the statement in her own hand writing as follows;"Only by Christian Education can the women of Japan be elevated and saved."
90206 Liet. Colonel Yamamuro Gumpei, Tokyo. In 1915 received the decoration of Legion of Honor in recognition of his 20 years of labor with the Salvation Army of Japan. Born in 1872 in Okayama Province. In 1887 came to Tokyo with 8 cents in his pocket. Converted at an open air meeting. Hearing of Joseph Niijima and Doshisha at Kyoto, he went to Kyoto, entered, studied amid great difficulties, graduated and labored with Mr. Ishii in his great work for orphans in Okayama. Was introduced to the Salvation Army Officers from England in 1895, and started to work with them. Author of "The Common People's Gospel," now in its 128th thousand and scores of other books and tracks. In Aug. 1917 visited the Japanese on the Pacific Coast holding 48 meetings in 15 centers, bringing 850 to the foot of the Cross.
69645 Col. Oshima of Kumamoto, Kyushu. One of the flaming evangelists in
Southern Japan. Retired from active service in the Army of Japan, but very
active in the Army of Christ.
69646 Saburo Shimada, Tokyo. Born 1852 in a humble family attached to the
Shogun, Tokyo. In 1868 he went to Shizuoka where he entered the Military
School at Numanzu. Four years later he went to Tokyo as an assisstant in
the Translating Bureau of the Department of Finance. After two years
there, he went to Yokohama and studied English under Rev. Brown soon
becoming the Chief editor of the Yokohama Daily News. In 1880 he became
the Secretary of the Educational Dept. Two years afterwards the proprietor
and Editor-in-chief of the Tokyo Mainichi, one of the powerful dailies of
the capital. In 1891 he was elected as a member of the Diet from Yokohama
City, four years later becoming the Vice President of the Diet, and in 1895
was mede President of the Diet. There is today no more powreful speaker in
the Diet than this defender of righteousness and leader of Temperance.
64943 Okada Bunji, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Dept., Tokyo. He
writes:"Aoyama Gakuin, Tokyo, is the school which gave me both mental and
scientific refinement in a most thorough manner therefore my heart is full
of gratitude to the school."
JanOP1-112:1 Mr. Ohara, President of the large Hurashiki Silk Mills. For
details of welfare work carried on within his mills, see the Christian
Movement of 1914 and 1915.
JanOP1-112:2 Kobayashi Tomijiro, President of the Lion's Tooth Powder Co.,
Tokyo. (See Christian mevement for 1914 and 15 for details of the welfare
work in his plant.) His yearly donations to charity, amounts up into many
thousands of Yen. His policy:"Christian Love is the girdle of all morals."