Teaching Japan: A Handbook
Ioannis Gaitanidis, Gregory Poole (eds)
- Title
- A Japanese Encounter with Christianity
- Subtitle
- The Memoirs of Takeda Kiyoko
- Author
- Takeda Kiyoko
- Translator
- Vanessa Ward
- Price
- € 122,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789048565740
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 200
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 02 - 04 - 2025
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Discipline
- Asian Studies
- Also available as
- eBook PDF - € 121,99
Note on Transliteration and Translation
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Translator’s Acknowledgements
Translator’s Introduction
Prologue: Encounters
1. My Home Village and Mother
2. My Schooling
3. The First International Conference of Christian Students
4. Europe at the Outbreak of War
5. Student Life in America
6. Wartime Japan
7. The Intellectual Atmosphere after the War
8. My Encounter with Ch. Yukio
9. New Friendships in Postwar Asia
10. The Beginning of the World Council of Churches
11. Towards the New International Christian University
12. China after the Revolution
13. Recollections of the Japan America Committee for Intellectual Interchange
14. Christianity and Japanese Culture (1)—Toward a History of Modern Japan
15. Christianity and Japanese Culture (2)—Protestants and the Elevation of Women’s Status
16. Christianity and Japanese Culture (3)—Research on the Emperor System
17. Christianity and Japanese Culture (4)—The Idea of Something Beyond Oneself
18. Hidden Patterns of Japanese Culture
19. Memories of Europe
20. Farewell to Ch. Yukio
Conclusion: Gratitude for the Blessing of “Encounters”
Afterword
Takeda’s Principal Publications
Bibliography
Chronology
Glossary
Index
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Translator’s Acknowledgements
Translator’s Introduction
Prologue: Encounters
1. My Home Village and Mother
2. My Schooling
3. The First International Conference of Christian Students
4. Europe at the Outbreak of War
5. Student Life in America
6. Wartime Japan
7. The Intellectual Atmosphere after the War
8. My Encounter with Ch. Yukio
9. New Friendships in Postwar Asia
10. The Beginning of the World Council of Churches
11. Towards the New International Christian University
12. China after the Revolution
13. Recollections of the Japan America Committee for Intellectual Interchange
14. Christianity and Japanese Culture (1)—Toward a History of Modern Japan
15. Christianity and Japanese Culture (2)—Protestants and the Elevation of Women’s Status
16. Christianity and Japanese Culture (3)—Research on the Emperor System
17. Christianity and Japanese Culture (4)—The Idea of Something Beyond Oneself
18. Hidden Patterns of Japanese Culture
19. Memories of Europe
20. Farewell to Ch. Yukio
Conclusion: Gratitude for the Blessing of “Encounters”
Afterword
Takeda’s Principal Publications
Bibliography
Chronology
Glossary
Index
Takeda Kiyoko
A Japanese Encounter with Christianity
The Memoirs of Takeda Kiyoko
Ch. Takeda Kiyoko (1917–2018), better known as Takeda Kiyoko (....), was a remarkable woman, whose life-course defied the stereotypes of modern Japanese women. Her memoirs focus on “encounters”—with the individuals whom Takeda met in her travels to Asia, the United States and Europe; through her involvement in organisations such as the YWCA and World Student Christian Federation (WSCF); and with the progressive Japanese thinkers that were the focus of her research (the response of thinkers of the modern period (from 1867) to Christianity). Some of these encounters were fleeting, others were more sustained. Regardless, the influence was enduring.
Takeda Kiyoko’s intellectual world expanded through her involvement with Christian organisations such as the YWCA and the WSCF, and when she went to the United States as an exchange student and worked at WSCF headquarters. Her involvement with the World Council of Churches also entailed extensive travel in Asia as well as Europe, and much engaged discussion on the future of ecumenicism. In the 1950s, she contributed to unofficial diplomacy between Japan and other Asian nations and to restoring friendly relations and mutual understanding between Japanese and other Asian people, including Chinese, Filipino, and Indian.
Takeda Kiyoko’s intellectual world expanded through her involvement with Christian organisations such as the YWCA and the WSCF, and when she went to the United States as an exchange student and worked at WSCF headquarters. Her involvement with the World Council of Churches also entailed extensive travel in Asia as well as Europe, and much engaged discussion on the future of ecumenicism. In the 1950s, she contributed to unofficial diplomacy between Japan and other Asian nations and to restoring friendly relations and mutual understanding between Japanese and other Asian people, including Chinese, Filipino, and Indian.
Author
Takeda Kiyoko
Takeda Kiyoko was co-founder of the Institute of Asian Cultural Studies at the International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo, where she was based from 1953. She received a PhD in Literature from the University of Tokyo in 1961 and became a professor emerita after her retirement in 1988. Over the course of her career, she published extensively on Christianity in Japan and held leadership positions in ecumenical organizations in Japan and globally. Through involvement in international ecumenical organizations, she contributed to restoring friendly relations and mutual understanding between Japanese and other Asian peoples after the Second World War. She was President (Asia-Pacific) of the World Council of Churches (1971–1975).
