Tamaki Uemura

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Tamaki Uemura
植村環
An older Japanese woman, wearing a dark suit
Uemura Tamaki, from a 1955 photograph
BornAugust 24, 1890
Tokyo
DiedMay 26, 1982
Tokyo
Occupation(s)Pastor, YWCA executive
ParentUemura Masahisa

Tamaki Uemura (植村環) (August 24, 1890 – May 26, 1982) was a YWCA executive, pacifist, and Christian pastor in Japan.

Early life

Uemura was born in Tokyo, the daughter of Masahisa Uemura and Sueno Yamanouchi.[1] Her father was a prominent Presbyterian minister.[2][3] She attended a women's college in Tokyo, then Wellesley College in Massachusetts from 1911 to 1915, on a four-year scholarship.[4][5][6] Later, after her father, son, and husband had all died, she studied theology at the University of Edinburgh, from 1925 to 1929.[7][8]

Career

Uemura was appointed as the national director of the YWCA in Japan in 1937, and she served as the vice-director of the International YWCA from 1938 to 1951.[9][10] In 1934, she became one of the first women ordained as a Christian pastor in Japan.[1] She taught at Tsuda College and other institutions, and was principal of the Tainan Presbyterian Girls' School in Taiwan in the 1930s. During World War II, she was the only female member of the executive committee of the United Church of Christ in Japan.[3] Under the United States' occupation of Japan immediately after the war, she was known for her stance as a prostitution abolitionist.[11][12]

In 1946, Uemura became the first Japanese civilian to visit the United States after the war, when she accepted an invitation from a national women's organization in the

international call for a "world constitution" for peace.[22] She was decorated with the Second Class of the Order of the Sacred Treasure in 1965.[7] She retired from pastoral duties in 1973.[4]

Personal life

Uemura married Shuzo Kawado in 1918; they had daughter, Machiko, and a son. She was widowed very young, and her son died from polio in 1923. Uemura died in 1982, in Tokyo, aged 91 years.[7]

References

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  2. ^ Soltau, Addison. "Uemura Masahisa (1857-1925) First GenerationPastor, Christian Leader and Instinctive Proponentof Indigenized Christianity in Japan" (D.Th. dissertation, Concordia Seminary, 1982): 232-233.
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  5. ^ Shackford, Martha Hale (February 1914). "Japanese Students at Wellesley College". New York Japan Review. 2: 65–66.
  6. ^ "The Wellesley Legenda (yearbook)". Wellesley College Digital Collections. 1915. p. 171. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
  7. ^ a b c "Tamaki Uemura (1915)". Wellesley College. Retrieved 2021-11-11.
  8. ^ a b "Jap Leader to Speak Here Friday Night". The Tribune. 1946-11-18. p. 7. Retrieved 2021-11-11 – via Newspapers.com.
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  10. JSTOR 20068612
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  11. ISBN 978-0-429-87672-1
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  12. JSTOR 30209792
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  13. ISBN 978-1-4982-7218-6
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  14. ^ "Will Speak". The Capital Times. 1946-09-08. p. 24. Retrieved 2021-11-11 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Union Service Scheduled". The Southwest Wave. 1947-03-06. p. 19. Retrieved 2021-11-11 – via Newspapers.com.
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  17. ISBN 978-0-19-060840-8
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  18. ISBN 978-90-04-16822-0
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  19. ^ "An Open Letter to Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower from Mrs. Tamaki Uemura, President of Japan YWCA" (April 30, 1954).
  20. JSTOR 23612829
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  21. ^ United States Congress Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1960). Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security with Japan: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, Second Session, on Ex. E, 86th Congress, 2d Session. June 7, 1960. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 46, Appendix E.
  22. ^ Letters from Thane Read asking Helen Keller to sign the World Constitution for world peace (1961); Helen Keller Archive, American Foundation for the Blind

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