This collection of essays is a welcome contribution to English-language work on one of Japan's greatest modern Christian thinkers, Uchimura Kanzō. The major dimensions of Uchimura's life and work are all covered here. His relationship with American Protestant Christianity is explored, in particular his personal friendship with the agricultural educationalist and missionary William S. Clark, and his theologically and socio-politically transformative period of work and travel in the United States. Uchimura's pacifism and his changing understanding of Japan's role in the world are discussed, alongside his difficulties in reconciling (or rather being seen by his non-Christian Japanese peers successfully to reconcile) what he called the ‘two J's’ – Jesus and Japan. This was especially challenging in early twentieth-century Japan where a context of intensifying cultural nationalism and success in military conflict – notably against Russia in 1905 – made the combination of pacifism and the profession of what was widely regarded as an imported creed a difficult and very lonely one. This is an interdisciplinary volume, and it is good to see Uchimura's theological and organisational work receiving its deserved focus and being linked to history and politics. This is especially important when it comes to the work for which Uchimura is best known: his pioneering advocacy of a socially activist non-church movement in Japan. A biographical sketch of Uchimura's life at the outset helps to ensure that these various strands intertwine in readers' minds, making this a useful volume for those both familiar and unfamiliar with Japanese Christianity – indeed, for those in the latter camp, Uchimura and this book offer a useful short introduction to a fascinating area of cultural and religious history.