Secretaries' files: Japan Mission minutes, 1911-1955 [microform]

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Secretaries' files: Japan Mission minutes, 1911-1955 [microform]

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Minutes document the educational and evangelistic mission of the PCUSA in Japan. Reaction to the Japanese government's foreign and domestic policies of the 1930s and early 1940s is documented as is assessments of Japanese-American relations and the Presbyterian Church's role in aiding post-World War II reconstruction efforts in Japan.

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Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions

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The first Presbyterian missionaries to Japan arrived in Yokohama in 1859. Despite hostility experienced by the missionaries throughout the closing decades of the 19th century, mission activities continued to expand. After 1906, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church transferred its work in Japan to the PCUSA Board of Foreign Missions. The mission's work was primarily educational and evangelistic. Because of the extensive system of Japanese hospitals and primary schools, the Board made no effort to c...

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