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I AM A WORLD CITIZEN

If I think that Japan alone is “my country,” then I will be disappointed. However, I am a world citizen, not just a citizen of Japan. … If I think that only Japanese are “my brothers,” then I will be disappointed. However, if I consider all men who recognize truth as truth and falsehood as falsehood … to be “my brothers,” I need not be disappointed. The Boers … The Filipino Tagalogs … The Finns … they too are my brothers. … As long as all within the Four Seas are brothers, whatever is good in other countries will come to ours sooner or later.

UCHIMURA KANZO


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I love two Js and no third; one is Jesus, and the other is Japan. I do not know
which I love more, Jesus or Japan. I am hated by my countrymen for Jesus’ sake
as foreign belief, and I am disliked by foreign missionaries for Japan’s sake as
national and narrow. Even if I lose all my friends, I cannot lose Jesus and Japan
. . . Jesus and Japan; my faith is not a circle with one center; it is an ellipse with
two centers. My heart and mind revolve around the two dear names. And I know
that one strengthens the other; Jesus strengthens and purifies my love for Japan;
and Japan clarifies and objectives my love for Jesus. Were it not for the two, I
would become a mere dreamer, a fanatic, an amorphous universal man.

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Kanzo Uchimura, 1861–1930 

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