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Timeline of Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto
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Timeline of Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto
During WWII Continued...
Before WWII
-1909-Kiyoshi Tanimoto is born into a Buddhist family.
-August 6, 1945, 8:16am-Mr. Tanimoto was outside Hiroshima when the bombing happened. Mr. Tanimoto was asked by his friend Matsuo to bring his daughter's belongings to a house outside of the city center. Matsuo and Tanimoto were about two miles away from where the bomb dropped.
-1926-At the age of 17 Tanimoto converted from Buddhist to a Christian Methodist. His father disowned him after his conversion.
-Tanimoto's wife and daughter were in Hiroshima, but were not hit by the bomb. The building where they stayed collapsed and protected them from deadly radiation without hurting them.
-1926-Tanimoto was forgiven by his elder brother and went to stay with him in Seoul (Korea) and stayed there for one year.
-1929-34-Tanimoto is sent to Kansai University where he studied Theology for four years.
-1934-36-After becoming a reverend, Kiyoshi was sent to Kagoshima to take care of two churches: Kokubu and Kaijiki.
Works Cited
http://www.tanimotopeacefoundation.com/reverend-kiyoshi-tanimoto/
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/29/obituaries/kiyoshi-tanimoto-dies-led-hiroshima-victims.html
During WWII
After WWII
-1937-40-After receiving a scholarship, Tanimoto studied at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia.) After graduation, he was a pastor at the Hollywood Japanese for 6 months.
-A fellow Emory University classmate, the Reverend Mr. Marvin Green, who was then pastor of the Park Church in Weehawken, New Jersey, Tanimoto told of his troubles.
-1941-1943-Tanimoto returned to Japan and was sent to Okinawa (Naha) and was the reverend there from 1941-43.
-1948-Tanimoto would leave his family behind in October of 1948 and embark on a journey to San Francisco after Mr. Green arranged with the Methodist Board of Missions an invitation to raise money for Mr. Tanimoto to visit the U.S.
-1942-Tanimoto married Chisa in January of 1942
-During Tanimoto's voyage to the U.S., an ambiguous idea rose in his head in which he would spend his life working for peace.
-1942-Tanimoto went to Kobe and he met with the reverend in charge of Nagarekawa Church in Hiroshima, in which Tanimoto would replace him starting in 1943
-1950-1982-Mr. Tanimoto would lecture extensively throughout the U.S. about the bomb's effects and the victims of the American's attack-constantly pushing and striving for peace.
-1943-44-Kiyoshi was checked by the Military police every week and his sermons were checked. In November 1944, his first daughter was born.
-Death 1986-Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto would pass of Pneumonia complicated by kidney failure.