Tokio Yokoi

Japanese: 横井時雄 - よこいときお
Tokio Yokoi

A Protestant Christian leader during the Meiji and Taisho periods. Born in Kumamoto Prefecture as the eldest son of Yokoi Shonan, a politician during the Meiji Restoration period. He converted to Christianity at Kumamoto Foreign School along with Tokutomi Soho and others, and became a member of the Kumamoto Band. He studied at Tokyo Kaisei School and Doshisha English School, and engaged in Christian evangelism and pastoral work in Iyo, Imabari, and Hongo, Tokyo. He later became president of Doshisha. After resigning from his position, he served as Chief Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of Communications, Editor-in-Chief of the Osaka Shimpo, consultant to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, member of the House of Representatives, and chief editor of the Tokyo Mainichi Shimbun, and worked to establish correct journalism and politics from a Christian perspective. He also published the general magazine Jidai Shicho with Anesaki Masaharu, aiming to create a new national spirit with a global perspective. He took a liberal new theological stance, and his major work was The Christian Problem in Our Country (1894).

[Shinji Kanai March 19, 2018]

[References] | Masaharu Anesaki | Kumamoto Band | Soho Tokutomi | Shonan Yokoi

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

明治・大正期のプロテスタント・キリスト教指導者。幕末維新期の政治家横井小楠(しょうなん)の長男として熊本県に生まれる。熊本洋学校で徳富蘇峰(とくとみそほう)らとキリスト教に入信、熊本バンドの一人となる。東京開成(かいせい)学校、同志社英学校に学び、伊予(いよ)・今治(いまばり)、東京・本郷(ほんごう)などでキリスト教伝道、牧会に従事する。のち同志社社長。辞職後、逓信(ていしん)省官房長、大阪新報主筆、外務省嘱託(しょくたく)、衆議院議員、東京日々新聞主幹などを歴任し、キリスト教的立場から正しいジャーナリズムおよび政治の確立に努力した。また、姉崎正治(あねさきまさはる)とともに総合誌『時代思潮』を発行し、世界的視野にたつ新たな国民精神の形成を目ざした。自由主義的な新神学の立場にたち、主著に『我邦(わがくに)の基督(キリスト)教問題』(1894)がある。

[金井新二 2018年3月19日]

[参照項目] | 姉崎正治 | 熊本バンド | 徳富蘇峰 | 横井小楠

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