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Japanese get to work on new Bible translation

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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

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


Japan bishops relaunch feudal lord beatification case

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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’

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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

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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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