70th anniversary hi-b.a. conference
Vision for all 47 prefectures Two missionaries, Ken Clark and John Meyer, started hi-b.a. Japan...
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Unyielding faith and ministry in the midst of severe persecution
In the 1930s, when Japan was about to plunge into war against China, one Christian...
Missionaries in Japan: A snapshot in space and time
These infographics show how Protestant missionaries are distributed in Japan and Tokyo and how their...
Lessons from Japan’s early Christians
Last year, I joined a tour of the filming location for Silence, a movie based...
Karuizawa: the end of an era
Northwest of Tokyo lies a mountain city that has a rich missionary history
Remembering the Reformation
On October 31, 1517, 33-year-old monk and theology professor Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to...
KGK celebrates its 70th anniversary
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Tokyo’s Waseda University didn’t have enough classrooms....
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands
In the summer of 2016, 71 years after the end of the Pacific War, If...
Overcoming the chain of hatred and vengeance
A special NHK program, Futari no Shokuzai Nihon to America—Nikushimi o Koete (The Atonement of...
A brief history of Protestant Bible translations into Japanese
(Updated from the article originally published in the Spring 2010 Japan Harvest) 1. Translation efforts under the...