Takasumi Mitsui

Brother of the head of Japan's most powerful business house - who had studied under Streeter and Thornhill at Oxford. There he, his wife Hideko and their children were baptised.

They worked with Frank Buchman in Europe until 1938, when they returned to Japan. Through the war he and Hideko, too, kept faith through many difficulties. They lost their two Tokyo houses in one night through fire-bombs, and lived for the rest of the war in a concrete store-house.

Like all Japanese they had little to eat - one of their children died of malnutrition - and they were watched by the police because of their identification with Moral Re-Armament. But, as members of the powerful Mitsui family, they were not arrested.