Foreign News: Through Christian Eyes

What had the violence of war and bitterness of defeat done to the faith of Toyohiko Kagawa, one of the most famed of Oriental Christian leaders? Last week in Tokyo TIME'S Chief Pacific Correspondent Manfred Gottfried talked at length with Kagawa, founder of Japan's Kingdom of God movement, biographer of Christ, and militant pacifist. War has not shaken Kagawa's faith; he is still a Christian. He is also still a patriotic Jap. Gottfried's report:

Kagawa is a small man with a ready smile, a forthright, friendly personality, and clothes as shabby as most Japanese....

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