SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Toyohiko Kagawa

1888 - 1960

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Toyohiko Kagawa (賀川 豊彦, Kagawa Toyohiko, 10 July 1888 – 23 April 1960) was a Japanese Evangelical Christian pacifist, Christian reformer, and labour activist. Kagawa wrote, spoke, and worked at length on ways to employ Christian principles in the ordering of society and in cooperatives. His vocation to help the poor led him to live among them. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Toyohiko Kagawa has received more than 173,635 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Toyohiko Kagawa is the 388th most popular social activist (down from 349th in 2019), the 1,020th most popular biography from Japan (down from 924th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Toyohiko Kagawa ranks 388 out of 840. Before him are Anita Augspurg, Otto Warmbier, Ivan Bolotnikov, Claudette Colvin, Azucena Villaflor, and Alice Paul. After him are Chen Qimei, Madan Lal Dhingra, Micaela Bastidas, Huey P. Newton, Deniz Gezmiş, and Nasrin Sotoudeh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Toyohiko Kagawa ranks 144. Before him are Nereu Ramos, Gustaf Molander, Paul Bernays, Anna Q. Nilsson, Gazanfar Musabekov, and Milán Füst. After him are Chana Orloff, Jinichi Kusaka, Harald Sverdrup, Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, and Elisabeth Schumann. Among people deceased in 1960, Toyohiko Kagawa ranks 125. Before him are Ioannis Georgiadis, Walter Noddack, Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, Igor Grabar, Ward Bond, and Margaret Sullavan. After him are Melvin Purvis, Wu Lien-teh, Oscar Hammerstein II, Oliver Kirk, Hersch Lauterpacht, and Paul Fort.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toyohiko Kagawa ranks 1,020 out of 6,245. Before him are Toshio Furukawa (1946), Yoshiro Nakamatsu (1928), Toyohiro Akiyama (1942), Katsukawa Shunshō (1726), Damo Suzuki (1950), and Homare Sawa (1978). After him are Ogyū Sorai (1666), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Moto Hagio (1949), Hisashi Owada (1932), Yuko Shimizu (1946), and Tatsumi Kimishima (1950).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Japan

Among social activists born in Japan, Toyohiko Kagawa ranks 8. Before him are Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), Ishikawa Goemon (1558), Otoya Yamaguchi (1943), Itagaki Taisuke (1837), Kōtoku Shūsui (1871), and Ninomiya Sontoku (1787). After him are Ōsugi Sakae (1885), Gotō Shōjirō (1838), Megumi Yokota (1964), Akira Amano (1973), Jared Taylor (1951), and Oliver Wood (null).

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