The Life and Thought of Kanzo Uchimura, 1861-1930While staying in the United States in 1884 at the age of 23, Kanzo Uchimura (1861 1930) felt a sense of religious calling that led him to devote the rest of his life to Christian mission in Japan. His subsequent life and work earned him recognition as one of the most important Japanese thinkers, essayists, and theologians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Uchimura claimed that Japan adopted Western civilization at the reopening of