Masayoshi Oshikawa

Masayoshi Oshikawa (押川方義; 1850–1928) was a Japanese evangelist, political activist and founder and first president of Tohoku Gakuin University.

The father was bitterly opposed to anything foreign; due to this family opposition, he saw his wife only twice in the nine years after his subsequent conversion.

After three years he moved to Yokohama to obtain a better knowledge of English and studied under Christian missionaries, including Samuel Robbins Brown and J.H.

He met with William Edwin Hoy, a missionary from the Reformed Church in the United States, in Tokyo in 1885 and invited him to Sendai.

[8] In 1887 Oshikawa was voted the first president of the newly created Miyagi Classis, covering the territory of all northern Japan, including Hokkaido.

He supported Emilio Aquinaldo's Philippine war against the United States and the Mongolian independence movement; in 1918 he criticized the Japanese people for their neglect of Japan's responsibility to improve Asian societies.

[3] He had two sons, Shunro, a pioneer of Japanese science fiction, and Kiyoshi, the founder of the first professional baseball team in Japan.