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Baptist Churches in Pre-WWII Imperial Japan

Pastor M. Wada with Kure Japan Missionaries

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Published: Sept. 6, 2020 Modified: Feb. 11, 2025
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Pastor Wada with missionary Daisy Ray and children Elizabeth, Emma, and Hermon. Hermon briefly returned to Japan as an SBC missionary with his wife from 1934 to 1937, after college and seminary. 

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Baptist Churches in Pre-WWII Imperial Japan
This album highlights the Wada family Christian missionary work in Japan before 1930. The Wada family started and served at several churches in Northern Japan as well as the Tokyo and Hiroshima areas before the American Baptist Home Missi…
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