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Baptist Churches in Pre-WWII Imperial Japan

First Y.W.A. conference in Kokura, Japan.


Published: Feb. 12, 2011 Modified: Feb. 11, 2025

Baptist missionaries are attending the service.   Grandmother Mutsu Wada Homma attended and wore her dark colored kimono (justright of center).  July 21-26 1926.

Missionary Maggie Lee Bouldin is in the upper left-hand corner. She served as 院長 or president/principal of Seinan Jo Gakuin from 1925-1927.  Information provided bt Russ Borg, SBC Japan Missionary
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Baptist missionaries are attending the service. Grandmother Mutsu Wada Homma attended and wore her dark colored kimono (justright of center). July 21-26 1926.

Missionary Maggie Lee Bouldin is in the upper left-hand corner. She served as Director or president/principal of Seinan Jo Gakuin from 1925-1927.   Information provided by Russ Borg, SBC Japan Missionary

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