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. He advocated for women's suffrage and promoted a peaceful foreign policy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Toyohiko Kagawa is the 371st most popular social activist (up from 389th in 2019), the 1,013th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,020th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Toyohiko Kagawa ranks 371 out of 840. Before him are Abbie Hoffman, Samantha Smith, Vasily Ignatenko, Mari Beyleryan, Alexander Antonov, and Toktogul Satylganov. After him are Viola Desmond, Robert Catesby, Baba Amte, Bipin Chandra Pal, Wei Jingsheng, and Nikolai Kuznetsov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Toyohiko Kagawa ranks 138. Before him are Harukichi Hyakutake, Antonio Ascari, Irving Cummings, Pavel Peter Gojdič, Louis J. Mordell, and Kan Kikuchi. After him are Gazanfar Musabekov, Thomas C. Kinkaid, Lotte Lehmann, Sydney Chapman, Vahram Papazian, and Michał Sopoćko. Among people deceased in 1960, Toyohiko Kagawa ranks 120. Before him are Melvin Purvis, Knud Enemark Jensen, Agnes Arber, Dmitry Gulia, Nima Yooshij, and Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke. After him are Margaret Sullavan, Joseph Wendel, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dimitrana Ivanova, Jamil Mardam Bey, and Nevil Shute.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Toyohiko Kagawa ranks 1,013 out of 6,245. Before him are Shinobu Ikeda (1962), Teinosuke Kinugasa (1896), Tōson Shimazaki (1872), Nobuyo Fujishiro (1960), Kunio Yanagita (1875), and Kanō Tan'yū (1602). After him are Yoshinori Ishigami (1957), Kenta Komatsu (1988), Tokugawa Nariaki (1800), Doppo Kunikida (1871), Toshio Matsuura (1955), and Sanjō Sanetomi (1837).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Japan

Among social activists born in Japan, Toyohiko Kagawa ranks 6. Before him are Sadako Sasaki (1943), Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), Ishikawa Goemon (1558), Otoya Yamaguchi (1943), and Itagaki Taisuke (1837). After him are Ninomiya Sontoku (1787), Kōtoku Shūsui (1871), Gotō Shōjirō (1838), Ōsugi Sakae (1885), Megumi Yokota (1964), and Akira Amano (1973).

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