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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 154,345 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Toyohiko Kagawa is the 349th most popular social activist (down from 296th in 2019), the 927th most popular biography from Japan (down from 866th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Toyohiko Kagawa ranks 349 out of 538Before him are Edna Parker, Donald Watson, Mary Edwards Walker, Anatoly Marchenko, Lee Radziwill, and Sultan al-Atrash. After him are Natalya Estemirova, Venetia Burney, William Howard Russell, Deniz Gezmiş, Mary Dyer, and Mary Toft.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Toyohiko Kagawa ranks 134Before him are Frances Marion, Barry Fitzgerald, Milán Füst, Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Vladimir Baranov-Rossine, and Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape. After him are Anna Q. Nilsson, Sydney Chapman, Kaarel Eenpalu, Gladys Cooper, Jinichi Kusaka, and Harry Crerar. Among people deceased in 1960, Toyohiko Kagawa ranks 115Before him are Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Adone Zoli, Massimo Bontempelli, Eduard Pütsep, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Móric Esterházy. After him are Carl Keenan Seyfert, Igor Grabar, Zora Neale Hurston, Harry Schell, Ken McArthur, and Semyon Bogdanov.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toyohiko Kagawa ranks 927 out of 6,048Before him are Sunao Tawara (1873), Kengo Kuma (1954), Kiyonao Ichiki (1892), Shigemi Ishii (1951), Natsuo Kirino (1951), and Ai Yazawa (1967). After him are Haruo Nakajima (1929), Kuroda Seiki (1866), Yasuhiko Okudera (1952), Matsudaira Sadanobu (1759), Kyōko Kagawa (1931), and Hiroshi Katayama (1940).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Japan

Among social activists born in Japan, Toyohiko Kagawa ranks 6Before him are Sadako Sasaki (1943), Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), Ishikawa Goemon (1558), Otoya Yamaguchi (1943), and Itagaki Taisuke (1837). After him are Gotō Shōjirō (1838), Megumi Yokota (1964), Akira Amano (1973), and Jared Taylor (1951).