A Japanese Encounter with Christianity

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 th