Susumu Ishitani

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    Susumu Ishitani (1932-2002) was at the forefront of the movement to refuse payment of that percentage of the Japanese income tax used for defense and military funding. He was a Quaker who was involved in Japan's Fellowship of Reconciliation. He was a child in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb was dropped there on August 9, 1945.

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Conscientious Objection in Japan

"On my third or fourth attendance at the Sunday service with Friends, an American young Quaker who was on the staff of the American Friends Service Committee working... Read more.