Tamaki Uemura

Japanese: 植村環 - うえむらたまき

Born: August 24, 1890, Tokyo
[Died] May 26, 1982. Pastor, evangelist, and social activist. Born as the third daughter of Uemura Masahisa, a leader in the Christian world in Japan. After graduating from Joshi Gakuin, she studied at Wellesley College in the United States. She married in 1917, but lost her husband two years later. She taught at Joshi Gakuin and other schools, but in 1925, after her father's death, she decided to become an evangelist and studied at the Department of Theology at Edinburgh University in the United Kingdom. In 1931, she founded the Kashiwagi Church of the Church of Christ in Japan, becoming Japan's first female evangelist. She served as president of the Japan YMCA and vice president of the World YMCA. After World War II, in 1946, she was invited by the Presbyterian Church of North America to travel officially to the United States, the first Japanese person to do so, and played a role in easing anti-Japanese sentiment. In 1955, she worked hard for the peace movement, forming the "Committee of Seven Appealing for World Peace" with Hideki Yukawa and others.

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[生]1890.8.24. 東京
[没]1982.5.26. 東京
牧師，伝道者，社会運動家。日本のキリスト教界の指導者植村正久の三女として生れる。女子学院を卒業後，アメリカのウェルズリー大学に留学。 1917年結婚するが，2年後に夫と死別。その後女子学院などで教鞭をとっていたが，25年父の死を機に伝道者の道を歩むことを決意，イギリスのエディンバラ大学神学科に学ぶ。 31年日本基督教会柏木教会を設立，日本初の女性伝道師となった。日本 YMCA会長，世界 YMCA副会長などを歴任。第2次世界大戦後の 46年には北米長老派教会の招きで日本人として初めて公式に渡米し，反日感情をやわらげる役割を果した。 55年湯川秀樹らと「世界平和アピール7人委員会」を結成するなど，平和運動にも尽力した。

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