The Princeton Scholar Who Moved to the Slums

In 1909, a young Japanese seminary student named Toyohiko Kagawa made a decision that baffled everyone who knew him. Though he had the intellect and connections to secure a comfortable pastorate — and would later study at Princeton Theological Seminary — Kagawa instead moved into a six-by-six-foot shack in the Shinkawa slums of Kobe, one of the most wretched neighborhoods in Japan.…