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Apostle visits Saints in the Land of the Rising Sun
Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve and Elder Donald L. Hallstrom of the Presidency of the Seventy spent 12 days traveling in the Asia North Area during the month of February. Stops on their itinerary included the Japan cities of Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Nagasaki, Tokyo and Sendai, as well...
A classic dilemma: The translation of the Book of Mormon into Japanese
Editor's note: This is one in a series on the Book of Mormon translations and translators. Literary Japanese was at a crossroads when four missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints arrived in Tokyo Bay in August of 1901. Over the next eight years, one of those...
Church expands donations to Japan
One day shy of eight months from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled to a remote area along the coast of Tohoku, Japan, and presented equipment and supplies to the devastated fishermen in that region. The donation is in addition...
Nobuaki Irie celebrates 20 years of performing LDS music in Japan
Nobuaki Irie, a native of Osaka, Japan, had never sung in public until he joined the LDS Church and was serving as a missionary in Fukuoka. In the 20 years since, this former Buddhist has sung and written music with artists like Janice Kapp Perry, Afterglow, Kenneth Cope , Jericho Road and others,...
Groundbreaking held for Sapporo Japan Temple
Mormon Life says: Hooray for more temples.
A groundbreaking ceremony for the Sapporo Japan Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) was held Saturday amidst wind and rain, marking the beginning of the Church’s...
Church helps Japanese fishermen get back to work
"Now we can go back to work and feed our families." These were the words of the fishermen in a small village near Sendai, Japan, on a very rainy day this September as they cut the ribbon on a new ice making machine donated by the Church, using humanitarian donations from around the world. On...
Rebuilding Japan: Supplies Donated to Sendai Fishermen; Missionaries Restore Shinto Shrine
Mormon Life says: There's a video of the ceremony if you click on the forwarding link.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) continues to help in the effort to rebuild Japan since March’s devastating earthquake and tsunami. Two recent efforts include the donation of...
Missionaries in Japan help restore sacred Shinto shrine
The priests at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo — a shrine of such importance in Japan that it can be compared to the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. — recently invited Church leaders here to describe how Latter-day Saints conduct their humanitarian efforts around the world, but especially in Japan...
Helping Japan heal
Standing in the doorway of an evacuation center here, Koichi Chiba greets two senior LDS missionaries. He recalls the days after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, when everyone in the evacuation center received half a rice ball to eat each day and nothing else. Then he talks of the...
Journey into Japan: LDS missionaries don T-shirts, get to work
When the sea overruns the earth and washes away all semblance of normal life, as Japan's tsunami did in March, everything changes — even Mormon missionaries' routines.Yuri Bennett, of Pleasant Grove, wanted to be a missionary in the land of her ancestors. But did she think mission service would...
Utah Scout honors ancestor by donating soccer balls to school in Japan
It is easy to forget about the tragedy that surrounds the Yamashita Middle School here while watching a soccer game in this community in northern Japan. Shouts of joy, in stark contrast to the recent sorrow, fill the atmosphere as the ball moves up and down the field. And that's just what...
In Japan disaster's wake, members search and care for others
Mormon Life says: Great photo gallery.
Yumiko Yoshiki was standing in her home on March 11 when the shaking started and things around her began to fall. Tsunami alarms followed. She grabbed her money and some clothing, and with her...
Sendai missionaries return to disaster zone to help rebuild community
From the window of a bus, Elder Patrick Hiltbrand recognized the streets and buildings around him. He saw his old apartment, the places he shopped for groceries and the streets where he proselytized as a missionary. On June 16, three months after being trapped on the second story of a Church...
The Japan Kobe Mission miracle
In mid January 2010, I received a call from the Area President, who told me of the planned consolidation of the Hiroshima Mission. The consolidation was to take place on or about July 1st and would result in the closure of the Hiroshima Mission with about two thirds of that mission being absorbed...
Japan Sendai Missionaries offer 'Mormon Helping Hands' in Japan recovery effort
From the window of a bus, Elder Patrick Hiltbrand recognized the streets and buildings around him. He saw his old apartment, the places he shopped for groceries and the streets where he proselytized as a missionary. On June 16, three months after being trapped on the second story of a Church...
