Japanese get to work on new Bible translation

The Japan Bible Society (JBS) is about to start work on a new edition of the Japanese-language New Interconfessional Translation of the Bible.

Sophia University, Japan

Sophia University is a Jesuit university that was founded in 1913 in Japan.

Japan bishops relaunch feudal lord beatification case

Japanese bishops have decided to re-initiate the process of beatification as a martyr of a Kirishitan Daimyo (Christian feudal lord) who was exiled to the Philippines by a Shogun in the 17th Century.

Nagasaki’s ‘Bombed Maria’ to visit Spain

A Marian statue, damaged during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, is set to meet its counterpart in Spain as part of a “peace pilgrimage” marking the 65th anniversary of the bombing.

Ahn Jung-geun - South Korea marks a painful centenary

March 26, 1910. Lushun, northeast China. A mustachioed 30-year-old Korean nationalist, Catholic convert and self-styled resistance fighter waits silently in his prison cell. His Japanese guards keep close watch. Their prisoner is special. (Ronan Thomas, Asia Times)

Japan’s suicide mission

For the twelfth year in a row, the number of people who committed suicide in Japan has topped 30,000. (Maryknoll Father William Grimm, UCA News)

Japanese bishops visit historic eco battle site

Eight bishops have visited the still-tainted site where Japan’s first environmentalist took on a mining company over the pollution it caused.

Kansai Catholic churches escape vandalism

Investigators are perplexed and Christian clergy have been shaken by a rash of vandalism against Protestant churches in Japan’s Kansai region over the past year.

Asian solidarity with WW2 ‘comfort women’

Asian religious leaders have voiced support for former “comfort women” by joining a weekly rally in Seoul calling on Japan to make an official apology for its war-time atrocities.
“As a Japanese, I feel shame and guilt seeing these ‘grandmothers’ still protesting on the street. I strongly urge the Japanese government to make an official apology [...]

Japanese bishops reject militarization

Most of Japan’s Catholic bishops do not want their country to build up its military, and support retention of their constitution’s “peace clause,” says Nagasaki Archbishop Joseph Mitsuaki Takami.

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