Yutaka Minakuchi: noted Japanese orator

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Yutaka Minakuchi
Noted Japanese Orator


YUTAKA MINAKUCHI
DR. MINAKUCHI is a Japanese lecturer and minister.  He was educated in the Universities of Kentucky, North Carolina and Virginia, and at Yale.  He speaks English better than most of us.  He is a great orator.  Competent critics class him among the best.  In the great Men and Religion Forward Movement organized and put in operation a few years ago, as a necessary work in further enlisting men in Christian work, Dr. Minakuchi was chosen as one of the chief orators.  He spoke in all the big cities of the country in company with Raymond Robins and Fred B. Smith, and fully met the extraordinary demands made upon him.

DR. MINAKUCHI is undoubtedly the ablest representative of the Christian Japanese in America.  He is a scholar of deep philosophical insight and a powerful orator.  It is a great pleasure to hear him and none can fail to gain much information and inspiration from his address.  He served an American congregation in Asheville, N. C., for three years as its regular pastor, and during the past year has acted as pastor of three Churches (united) in Chesterfield, Illinois.  Last summer he filled over eighty lecture engagements on one of the largest and oldest Chautauqua Circuits of the West, and has been engaged by the same management for the summer of 1916.

The Japanese problem has engaged some considerable attention in America in the past few years, and some folks see in Japan the great menace to the future peace of this country.  Mr. Minakuchi's lecture will be full of meaty information on this all-important question, and Americans will have a better understanding of the Japanese nation as a result.  This splendid Christian gentleman has no purpose to serve in this lecture, save to present the truth and produce a better understanding of the real questions involved in a discussion which, in many instances, has been marked by much more noise than light.  Every thinking citizen will be interested in what he has to say.




Noted Japanese Orator

Lecture Subjects

The Border Land
IN THIS lecture on The Border Land, Mr. Minakuchi will discuss certain contributions which the eastern and western civilizations have made toward world progress.  The salient features of each civilization will be brought out.  Some of the radical theories and arguments which have been circulated of late will be discussed, and their fallacies exposed.  An effort will be made to find the border land — place of reconciliation between these two seemingly opposed civilizations.  The discovery of that border land will be the aim of the lecture, for it is the belief that there is a border land where there is no East nor West, but where one fades into the earth in common understanding, and the truth of Kipling's stirring lines becomes apparent—


For there is neither East nor West
Border, nor breed, nor birth—
When two strong men stand face to face,
Tho' they come from the ends of the earth.



The Religion of the Future
THIS lecture deals with Christianity in action, hence the message will touch upon the vital needs of the race, as well as upon a larger application of Christianity to meet those needs.



American-Japanese Relations
ALECTURE that deals with the present relations between Japan and America in the light of their past diplomatic history.  It touches upon the future outlook as well as dwelling upon the present day World politics.  Not academic, but a popular treatment of a great subject.



Christianity in the Light of Other Religions
IN this lecture Dr. Minakuchi sets forth the pre-eminence of Christianity in the light of modern comparative study of religion.  Christianity is compared with four or five great religions of the world, not in the spirit of antagonism, but with sympathy and optimism.  In it the lecturer will point out a way for the reconciliation of these religions.






Dr. Yutaka Minakuchi - Orator

What Competent Critics Say
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa.—Mr. Yutaka Minakuchi has something worth-while to say and he knows how to say it.  He is thoroughly acquainted with American and Japanese life.  understands the Christian philosophy of life, and speaks a message of brotherhood that is sane and convincing.  Mr. Minakuchi is a scholar of broad information and possesses the rare gift of clear and forceful speech.  His recent addresses at Grinnell made a profound impression for good.—E. J. Jaqua, Assistant to the President.

Fred B. Smith of the Men and Religion Forward Movement.—Mr. Yutaka Minakuchi is one of this generation's real prophets, an almost unequaled orator and, at the same time, a master of the supreme philosophy of Christianity.  I have heard Mr. Minakuchi many, many times and in every case, without even so much as one exception, he made a tremendous impression for good.  I know only a few men of his platform ability.

Raymond Robins.—I was in intimate association with the Honorable Yutaka Minakuchi for some eight months in the common service of the Men and Religion Forward Movement, speaking in the larger cities of the United States.  I regard Mr. Minakuchi as the ablest representative I have ever met of Christian Japan, and one of the most effective platform orators I have ever known.  Mr. Minakuchi combines extraordinary grace of diction and natural eloquence with the wisdom of a profound student of religious and social problems both of his own and foreign lands.  I know of no more convincing advocate of the Gospel of the Gallilean than this gifted son of Japan.  I bespeak for him the widest possible hearing both for his own merit and to serve the growing good of the world.

Dr. Clarence A. Barbour, President Rochester Theological Seminary.—I am well acquainted with Mr. Yutaka Minakuchi and have had the best of opportunities of hearing him speak upon various topics.  He has a thoroughly trained, philosophical, and well-stored mind, and very remarkable gifts as an orator.  I have many times seen audiences moved in a really wonderful way under the spell of his oratory.  He has a real message, and he knows how to deliver it in a most effective way.

W. E. Biederwolf, Noted Evangelist.—Several years ago I came to know a brilliant young Japanese.  His name is Yutaka Minakuchi.  He was known as the orator and philosopher of the Men and Religion Forward Movement.  He is a clean, strong, magnetic young chap of great intellectual power, and a speaker of tremendous ability.  He captures the people wherever he goes.  Though a Japanese, he has spent most of his life in America.  If you want a hummer, get the American Jap.  He is in a class all by himself.

J. M. Flanagan, City Club of St. Louis, Mo.—We have prominent speakers from all over the world at our club at various times, and I can say with absolute sincerity that there has never been a speaker at the City Club who made a deeper impression upon his audience than did Yutaka Minakuchi.  He has a remarkable message, and one which, in this time of war and rumors of war, should be heard from one end of this country to the other.



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