407: Shigeo Hironaka

He was Born on 7th July 1902 and died on 25th February 1991.
He studied English at Meiji Senmon Gakko and YMCA in Tokyo.
He became an English teacher at an industrial high School in Shimonoseki He loved so much English Literature especially the work of W. Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene.
He read always the book with dictionary in Hand and noted the words he did not understand even in his old age.
He was so much impressed by the Christian humanism expressed in the literature that he sent all of his children to Christian missionary Schools, eldest son Takaji to Sophia University in Tokyo, second son Yasuji to Kwansei Gakuin University who became the first Fulburight Student sent to US after the world war two and studied at Rehi University in Pennsylvania, daughter Satoko to Saint Michel in Kobe and Shizuko to Poole Gakuin Anglican School in Osaka who studied at ICU.
To honour our beloved father and thank him Name the room of Dialog House.

To honour our beloved father with many thanks here named the room.

• 堀田司津子　Shizuko Hotta