Michi Kawai

Overview

Michi Kawai born Yamada, Japan July 29, 1877 (d. 1953). Japanese internationalist, pacifist; "The greatest woman leader in Japan"; Secretary of YWCA; leader of Fellowship of Reconciliation; President of Japan Peace Society 1931-3 opposing Manchurian war; labored to avoid war with US.

Quotations

"Love cannot live alone; it calls for friendship and grows stronger and purer by unselfish service. Where love is, peace abides, and envy, fear, hatred, war, can never come within its citadel." (Michi Kawai and Ochimi Kubushiro, Japanese Women Speak, p. 189, 1934)