Kagawa comes home
by [Kagawa, Toyohiko]
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- Paperback
- Condition
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Tokyo: Friends of Jesus, 1937. Paperback. 63p. slender paperback journal, ownership signature on cover, spine ends worn, otherwise generally minor toning and wear. Laid in is a single-sheet mimeographed newsletter of the Kagawa Fellowship from June 1937, serving as a cover letter for the journal. Kagawa was a labor activist and missionary, jailed several times for labor activities as well as for apologizing to China for Japan's occupation in 1940. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 and 1948, and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1954 and 1955. This publication, a special issue of the Friends of Jesus magazine (vol. 9 no. 1), discusses his recent trip to the US, activities of his movement in Japan and elsewhere, and even contains an article by Edward Filene, the Boston department store magnate, titled "A cooperative capitalist discusses religion and distribution.
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- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 270198
- Title
- Kagawa comes home
- Author
- [Kagawa, Toyohiko]
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Friends of Jesus
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1937
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion; Labor - American; 1930S; Utopian movements and literature; Japan;
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About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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