Kazoh Kitamori

was a Japanese theologian, pastor, author, professor, and churchman. His most famous work in the West is ''The Theology of the Pain of God'', which was published in 1946 in Japan and in the United States in 1965. He was a longtime professor at Tokyo Union Theological Seminary. He was, along with Kōsuke Koyama, a leading contributor to Protestant Christian theology from twentieth century Japan. Provided by Wikipedia