[This message was published in the weekly news bulletin of Horley Baptist Church, 13/Sep/2020]
Heard of Hiroshima? Yes … or The Nanking Massacre in 1937? Maybe only recently. Up to 300,000 Chinese were killed by the Japanese Army.
It is estimated that 20 million Chinese were killed between 1931 and 1945.
The book ‘Two Pilgrims Meet –In search of Reconciliation between China and Japan’ by Minoru Kasai and Basil Scott looks at all the issues of the time from opposing perspectives. Minoru and Basil met at Banaras Hindu University, in India, in 1963. They discovered that both had spent their childhood in Shanghai. Minoru’s Japanese parents worked there in freedom, whilst Basil was interned with his missionary parents in a Japanese Prisoner Of War (POW) camp alongside Eric Liddell. Minoru was also a Christian and he and Basil regularly prayed together. Minoru moved to the USA and they then lost contact.
In 2005 amazingly through a mutual contact in Cambridge they were put in touch again. Basil now regularly visits Minoru in Japan. This book lists all the attempts for reconciliation and it is a concentrated read. If anyone would like to borrow the book please contact me. Andy P. has it at the moment as he knows Basil … whilst I met him many years ago on a plane to India!
Ed note: The book that Priscilla recommends is also available in Kindle format, at
Two Pilgrims Meet
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