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November 2, 2026 | 7:00 p.m. | Theron Room, Wright Library Register Now The title of this year’s lecture presented by Dr. Emily Anderson is “Japanese Christianity Across the Pacific: Lessons from a Transnational Archive.” Presented every three years, The Toyohiko Kagawa Lecture was established at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1999 by Rev.
Y. Carl Fuyura, PhD ’59, along with other Princeton Seminary alumni and Japanese friends. The lectureship honors and perpetuates the memory of Rev.
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Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, MDiv 1915, his ministry, and legacy as an evangelist and social worker. Lecture followed by reception outside of Theron Room, Wright Library.
Dr. Emily Anderson Dr. Emily Anderson is a scholar of religion and empire in Japan, and has published on Christianity in Japan, the Japanese empire, and Japanese immigrants before World War II.
Her publications include Christianity in Modern Japan: Empire for God (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Belief and Practice in Imperial Japan and Colonial Korea (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) as well as articles and book chapters on religion and imperialism in Japan and the Pacific. She also has over 25 years of experience in public history and has created and contributed to exhibits for multiple organizations, including the Japanese American National Museum and the San Diego Museum of Us. She holds a PhD in modern Japanese history from UCLA (2010).
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