Life and Work in Japan

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Considerations when choosing a mission agency

When coming to Japan as a missionary, an important decision you will need to make is which sending organization or mission board to go with. There isn’t one “right answer” to this question. However, we will take a look at some of the options available to missionaries. What does mission board do? Mission agencies and

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City Research – how to research your target area in Japan

Thanks to Japan’s meticulous records, volumes of data are available when you are wanting to study the demographics of an area. In this article, we will discuss a few of these resources. City Planning Division Get a map If you are in a large city, the city will have a city planning division called the

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Dear aspiring missionary, please don’t go to seminary (yet)

Wanting to be a missionary and thinking about going to seminary? Think again. The road to becoming a foreign missionary is oddly vague sometimes. How do those “called” people go from a pew to places like Japan or Papua New Guinea? What are the steps? How do you prepare? One question you might have might

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