Yoko Hayashi

In this paper, I focus on Maurice Gregory’s visit to Japan from 1911 to 1912 as a director of the British Committee of the International Federation for the Abolition of State Regulation of Vice and how the Japanese Purity Agitation Society ‘Kakusei-kai’ joined the membership of the Federation. I explain how Gregory as a Quaker became interested in the relationship between the problems of the opium trade under the governance of the British Empire and problems of the Japenese licensed prostitution when Gregory and his friends started publishing the Banner of Asia in Bombay in 1889.

In this thesis, I examine articles from the salvation army publications on Japanese free cessation movements (Jiyu Haigyo Undo) in four bulletins from the salvation army international headquarters in Britain compared with articles in the Japanese War Cry to make it clear how relationships and the division of the roles between the British and the Japanese salvation army were, and who governed decision-making in free cessation movements in the early period. Here, I will also show that the historical background of the establishment of the Japanese first rescue home for women by the salvation army was the same kind of experiences as in Ceylon.