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Quakers in the World
Nitobe Inazo
1862-1933
Nitobe Inazo was a Japanese Quaker who became the first Under Secretary General for the League of Nations.
“Let it be far from me to turn Quakerism into Oriental mysticism. Quakerism stays within the family of Christianity. ... Unlike Orientals, George Fox and his followers conceived ... of light as a person, but by making their person eternal and existent before the world was, Quakerism came to much the same conclusion as the old mystics.”
A Japanese View of Quakerism, Nitobe Inazo, lecture given at the University of Geneva, 1926.
Nitobe was born into a samurai family on Honshu, the main island of Japan. He first became a Christian while attending Sapparo Agricultural College on Hokkaido. Asked why he wished to study English as well as agriculture, he replied that he wanted to be ‘a bridge across the Pacific’.
He attended Tokyo University for a time but, dissatisfied with the teaching, he persuaded his uncle to fund post-graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA, a university which h
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NITOBE Inazo
Educator. Born in Iwate as the son of a samurai of the Morioka Clan. He graduated from the Sapporo Agricultural College in 1881. In 1884, he left Tokyo University before graduation and went to study in the United States, where he became a Quaker. After returning to Japan in 1891, he successively held important posts as Professor of the Sapporo Agricultural College, Professor of the Imperial University of Tokyo, and the first President of Tokyo Women's Christian University. One of his especially notable contributions was education based on the principal of personalism, which he implemented during his tenure as president at the First Higher School from 1906 to 1913. He was a typical cosmopolitan of the day and served as Under-Secretary General of the League of Nations from 1919 to 1926, and later as the chairman of the Japan Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations. In 1927, Nitobe was elected as a member of the House of Peers. He was a Doctor of Agriculture and a Doctor of Jurisprudence. He is famous for writing "Bushido; the Soul of Japan" (1900).
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- This is a Japanese name; the family name is Nitobe.
Nitobe Inazō (新渡戸 稲造,Nitobe Inazō) (September 1, 1862 – October 15, 1933) was a Christian, agricultural economist, author, educator, diplomat, and politician during the Meiji and Taishō periods in Japan. Born the son of a samurai of the Morioka Clan in Iwate, he converted to Christianity while a student at the Sapporo Agricultural College in 1881. In 1884, he went to study in the United States, where he became a Quaker. After earning his doctorate in agricultural economics in Germany, he married Mary Patterson Elkinton in Philadelphia and returned to Japan in 1891 to assume an assistant professorship at the Sapporo Agricultural College. Nitobe served as a professor of law at Kyoto Imperial University and Tokyo Imperial University, Headmaster of the First Higher School (then the preparatory division for the Tokyo Imperial University), and the first president of Tokyo Women's Christian University. He was an Under-Secretary General of the League of Nations from 1919 to 1926, and later chairman of the Japan Council o
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