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Japan1973 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses
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Accompanied by Don Adams, Brother Knorr paid his second visit to Japan, April 21-27, 1956. Although arrival time was 1:10 a.m., some twenty missionaries were at the airport to meet them. The assembly arranged to coincide with the visit was held April 21 to 23, at the beautiful new Nakano-Ku Kokaido, in western Tokyo. As yet, this part of Tokyo had scarcely been witnessed to, but now 200,000 handbills, 2,500 window cards, 20,000 copies of a special issue of the Japanese Awake! (which magazine had proved to be very popular since first released in January 1956), plus an intensive house-to-house rooming work, resulted in a fine testimony to the people of that neighborhood. Newspapers also gave good publicity, announcing the assembly and Brother Knorr’s arrival.
On Saturday afternoon, April 21, an audience of 425 thrilled to hear Brother Knorr’s talk on “Christians Must Be Happy.” Though this was a majority of the 567 publishers reporting service in Japan at the time, the audience looked lost in the spacious hall. How delighted the brothers were, then, when 974 eager listeners practically filled the hall for the public talk on “Making All Mankind One Under Their Creator”!
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Japan1973 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses
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At the time of Brother Knorr’s visit in 1956, Tokyo had just 111 publishers, together with sixteen missionaries and pioneers, organized in three congregations.
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