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| ISBN-13: | 9781498224918 |
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| Publisher: | Cascade Books |
| Publication date: | 01/05/2016 |
| Pages: | 304 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Joanna Reed Shelton lives with her husband in Montana's Rocky Mountain Northwest. For more than twenty years, she was intimately involved in US-Japan relations in increasingly senior positions of government and diplomacy. A quest for knowledge about her great-grandfather's life and work in Japan launched her on a new path. After long holding religion at arm's length, she now serves as an elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Please visit her website: www.joannashelton.com.
Table of Contents
Preface xi
Alexander Family xii
List of Abbreviations xiii
Author's Note 1
Chapter 1 Leaving Home 4
Chapter 2 The Early Years 11
Chapter 3 Stranger in a Strange Land 24
Chapter 4 The Last Samurai 32
Chapter 5 A Time to Prepare 48
Chapter 6 Firestorm 60
Chapter 7 Into the Heart of Buddhism 66
Chapter 8 A New Calling 80
Chapter 9 An Opposition Leader Reaches Out 92
Chapter 10 Planting Seeds 102
Chapter 11 A New Badge of Honor 110
Chapter 12 Home to America 119
Chapter 13 You Can't Go Home Again 129
Chapter 14 A Death in the Family 138
Chapter 15 Nationalism on the Rise 148
Chapter 16 Unsteady Ground 161
Chapter 17 Worlds Apart 173
Chapter 18 An Independent Spirit 186
Chapter 19 A Happy Reunion 199
Chapter 20 Papa Went to Heaven 208
Chapter 21 He Gave His Life for Japan 218
Epilogue Part I A Living Legacy 227
Epilogue Part II My Own Journey of Faith 239
Appendix I Whatever Happened To…? 257
Appendix II T. T. Alexander Letter Defending Uemura Masahisa 273
Appendix III T. T. Alexander Publications (partial list) 277
Acknowledgements 281
Picture Credits 285
Selected Bibliography 287
What People are Saying About This
"It would be hard to imagine a cultural adjustment more severe or more dangerous than traveling in 1877 from the Tennessee mountains to become a Christian missionary in Japan. Joanna Shelton's family story is a reading adventure well worth taking and enjoying."
—Senator Lamar Alexander, Governor of Tennessee 1979-1987, Maryville, TN
"I grew up in a church culture in which my heroes were missionaries; while my contemporaries were awed by athletes and movie stars, missionaries were the ones who held my attention. They still do. . . . In this memoir of her great-grandfather, Shelton adds one more riveting story to my scrapbook of risk-taking and courageous witnesses to the Christian faith."
—Eugene H. Peterson, Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, BC
"Joanna Shelton's impressive research reveals the amazing story of Itagaki Taisuke's invitation to her great-grandfather and his fellow missionaries to preach Christianity in Itagaki's native Tosa region. Itagaki, who was on Japan's 100 yen bill in the past, was leader of the democratic movement in the early Meiji era and created Japan's first major political party, ancestor to the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, of which I am a member."
—Yoriko Kawaguchi, Former Foreign Minister and Environment Minister of Japan; former member House of Councilors (upper house of the Diet); Professor, Meiji Institute for Global Affairs, Tokyo
"Shelton's highly engaging narrative about her great-grandfather opens a window into Japan's turbulent transition from rule by shoguns to its status as Asia's first constitutional democracy. . . . This fascinating, often poignant story should be read by serious scholars and general readers alike."
—George R. Packard, President, U.S.-Japan Foundation and Dean Emeritus, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
"Anyone interested in how one person can have a significant impact across borders and boundaries in today's world will be impacted by this book."
—The Rev. Dr. Katharine R. Henderson, President, Auburn Theological Seminary