Masayoshi Oshikawa

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Masayoshi Oshikawa (押川方義; 1850–1928) was a Japanese evangelist, political activist and founder and first president of Tohoku Gakuin University.

Masayoshi Oshikawa, 1877
Masayoshi Oshikawa

Early life and education

Masayoshi Oshikawa was born in 1850 in

Tokyo University. After three years he moved to Yokohama to obtain a better knowledge of English and studied under Christian missionaries, including Samuel Robbins Brown and J.H. Balogh, at an English school, Yokokhama Shubunkan.[2]

Career

Reverend Masayoshi Oshikawa

While in Yokohama he converted to Christianity in 1872 and started missionary work,

Classis, covering the territory of all northern Japan, including Hokkaido. The same year he founded a Christian farming community on Hokkaido with the goal of eventually starting a Christian university; the group dissolved after 14 years.[9] Actively involved in evangelical activities in several places he resigned as president of Tohoku Gakuin in 1891.[10]
In 1883, with
Emilio Aquinaldo's Philippine war against the United States and the Mongolian independence movement; in 1918 he criticized the Japanese people for their neglect of Japan's responsibility to improve Asian societies.[3]

He had two sons,

Shunro, a pioneer of Japanese science fiction, and Kiyoshi, the founder of the first professional baseball team in Japan.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Archives Tohoku Gakuin" (PDF).
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    ISBN 978-1-137-56879-3
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  4. ^ Friends Review. Philadelphia: Merriman and Son. 1873. p. 663.
  5. ^ Johnson, Wayne (2006-01-01). "Omurasan: A Portrait of Faith". Leben. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
  6. ^ Miller, Henry K.; Reformed Church in the United States. Board of Foreign Missions (1904). History of the Japan mission of the Reformed Church in the United States, 1879-1904. Princeton Theological Seminary Library. Philadelphia : Board of Foreign Missions, Reformed Church in the United States.
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  8. ^ "Miyagi Gakuin Women's University". www.mgu.ac.jp. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  9. ^ "Immigration to the North Land". AKARENGA. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  10. ^ "The Three Founders of Tohoku Gakuin - The United Church of Christ in Japan" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  11. ^ "Japanese Christian Missions to Korea in Early Meiji Japan | Center for East Asian Studies". ceas.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  12. ^ "押川 清". www6.plala.or.jp. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
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