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- Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2026
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- Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2026
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Japan
- Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985

Japanese (Language)
- Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985

Japan (‎121 occurrences)
- Japan
  ...
  TENACIOUS hard work and unity of purpose are among the qualities that have brought Japan from the devastation of World War II to its modern role as one of the industrial giants of the world.
- yb98 pp. 66-161 - Yearbook—1998

Japan (‎120 occurrences)
- Japan
  ...
  JAPAN is a land of variety.
- yb73 pp. 209-255 - Yearbook—1973

Is Japan’s Prosperity Genuine? (‎30 occurrences)
- Is Japan’s Prosperity Genuine?
  ...
  By “Awake!” correspondent in Japan
- g71 10/22 pp. 9-11 - Awake!—1971

Report on Japan and Korea (‎27 occurrences)
- Report on Japan and Korea
  ...
  Those who had been in Japan for over a year and who were able to offer some helpful suggestions to the new missionaries to familiarize them with many of the problems encountered in the field spoke out.
- w51 10/15 pp. 631-637 - The Watchtower—1951

Because They Were Shipwrecked (‎23 occurrences)
- By “Awake!” correspondent in Japan
  ...
  The Indians promptly captured them and forced them into a life of hard labor with no apparent prospect of returning to Japan.
- g82 10/22 pp. 16-20 - Awake!—1982

Why Be Open to New Ideas? (‎21 occurrences)
- He had been longing to see Japan and had finally reached it on July 8, 1853, after more than seven months of navigation.
  ...
  More than 200 years earlier, Japan had cut off trade and cultural ties with all countries except China, Korea, and Holland.
- w89 1/15 pp. 3-4 - The Watchtower—1989

Korea (‎21 occurrences)
- It lies just west of the islands of Japan and is bordered on the north by China and the Soviet Union.
  ...
  Because of Korea’s strategic location, nations more powerful, such as China and Japan, have long wielded a strong influence over its people.
- yb88 pp. 136-197 - Yearbook—1988

Jehovah Does Not Forsake His Servants (‎20 occurrences)
- FOR nearly a year, I had been held in solitary confinement in a tiny, filthy, flea-infested prison cell in Sendai, Japan.
  ...
  Those were difficult times nearly 50 years ago in Japan.
- w88 5/1 pp. 21-25 - The Watchtower—1988

Hiroshima—Has Its Lesson Been Lost? (‎18 occurrences)
- THE people of Japan were weeping as they stood around their radio sets that midday of August 15, 1945.
  ...
  Thus, immediately following the war, Japan rewrote its constitution along democratic lines and renounced war forever.
- g85 8/22 pp. 6-8 - Awake!—1985

The Growing Oil Crisis (‎18 occurrences)
- It hits hardest at advanced industrial lands dependent on the Middle East as prime source of oil, among them the United States, Japan and the nations of western Europe.”
  ...
  Why are the Western nations and Japan so affected, and not the Communist lands?
- g74 1/8 pp. 3-8 - Awake!—1974

From Emperor Worship to True Worship (‎17 occurrences)
- Even though it was obvious in 1945 that Japan was losing World War II, we were confident that kamikaze (“divine wind”) would blow and defeat the enemy.
  ...
  THEREFORE, when Emperor Hirohito, on August 15, 1945, announced to the nation that Japan had surrendered to the Allied Forces, the hopes of a hundred million people devoted to him were shattered.
- w98 12/1 pp. 27-31 - The Watchtower—1998

Shinto—Japan’s Search for God (‎17 occurrences)
- Shinto—Japan’s Search for God
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  But Japanese business and cultural influences are now so widespread that it should interest us to know what religious factors have shaped Japan’s history and the Japanese personality.
- sh chap. 8 pp. 187-204 - Mankind’s Search for God (sh)

‘Lengthening the Tent Cords’ in Japan (‎17 occurrences)
- ‘Lengthening the Tent Cords’ in Japan
  ...
  This is, perhaps, nowhere more evident than in Japan, where there are some 96,000 worshipers of the true God.
- w85 6/15 pp. 22-25 - The Watchtower—1985

Kingdom “Explosion” in Japan (‎17 occurrences)
- Kingdom “Explosion” in Japan
  ...
  The atomic bomb had just exploded over Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945.
- w82 10/1 pp. 16-19 - The Watchtower—1982

Taiwan (‎17 occurrences)
- In 1895 Taiwan was ceded to a victorious Japan, and then came Japanese settlers.
  ...
  Thirty-five years after the commencement of Japan’s rigorous rule and educational activities, several people came to Taiwan to conduct an educational campaign of a more important nature.
- yb72 pp. 213-234 - Yearbook—1972

Hawaii (‎16 occurrences)
- After Captain James Cook’s landing in the late 18th century, successive waves of immigrants from China, Japan, Okinawa, Korea, the Philippines, the Portuguese islands of Madeira and the Azores, Puerto Rico, Spain, Scandinavia, and Germany sought a better life and came as indentured laborers on the sprawling sugar plantations.
  ...
  Brother Hanaoka helped to open up the work in Japan after World War II, completing 20 years of full-time service there by the time of his death in 1971.
- yb91 pp. 66-115 - Yearbook—1991

My Father Was “Atom-Bombed Out Of Prison” (‎15 occurrences)
- At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, an atom bomb exploded over Hiroshima, Japan, devastating the city and wiping out tens of thousands of its population.
  ...
  My father had refused to worship the emperor and support Japan’s militarism, so he was at that time an inmate in the Hiroshima prison.
- g94 10/8 pp. 11-15 - Awake!—1994

Part 4—Witnesses to the Most Distant Part of the Earth (‎15 occurrences)
- Also from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland, among others.
  ...
  Meanwhile, what was taking place in Japan?
- jv chap. 22 pp. 462-501 - Proclaimers (jv)

“Of Course You Can, Kayoko. I Did!” (‎15 occurrences)
- Yes, the pioneer spirit permeates the congregations of Jehovah’s witnesses in Japan.
  ...
  But sixteen years later in Japan I received a letter from Lucille in which she said: “You won’t believe it but I am now your Christian sister.”
- w70 11/1 pp. 666-670 - The Watchtower—1970

President Serves in Taiwan, Okinawa and Japan (‎15 occurrences)
- President Serves in Taiwan, Okinawa and Japan
  ...
  That same evening the visiting brothers took another plane for Tokyo, Japan.
- w56 8/15 pp. 505-509 - The Watchtower—1956

Jehovah Draws Humble Ones to the Truth (‎14 occurrences)
- He was the very first missionary of Jehovah’s Witnesses to come to Japan.
  ...
  People were convinced of victory for Japan, the divine nation, and its emperor, a living god.
- w03 10/1 pp. 24-28 - The Watchtower—2003

When Someone Calls, Do You Answer? (‎14 occurrences)
- My grandparents had emigrated from Japan to Hawaii, and my parents were Buddhists.
  ...
  However, in 1947, Brother Haslett told us that the Society wanted to know if there were any Hawaiians willing to take up foreign service in Japan.
- w92 11/1 pp. 27-31 - The Watchtower—1992

Devoted to a Man-God—Why? (‎14 occurrences)
- The military and political leaders of Japan used the educational system to indoctrinate devotion to the emperor.
  ...
  The youths of Japan were told that subjects of the emperor were aohitogusa, or “growing human weeds,” and that they were to protect him by serving as his shield.
- g89 12/22 pp. 6-9 - Awake!—1989

Men Who Were Called “Gods” (‎14 occurrences)
- By “Awake!” correspondent in Japan
  ...
  But the situation is somewhat different with the emperor of Japan.
- g82 4/22 pp. 18-20 - Awake!—1982

Crisis in Japan (‎14 occurrences)
- Crisis in Japan
  ...
  By “Awake!” correspondent in Japan
- g74 6/8 pp. 25-26 - Awake!—1974

How a Fishing Village Became a Metropolis (‎13 occurrences)
- WRITER IN JAPAN
  ...
  ON A beautiful summer day in August 1590, Ieyasu Tokugawa (right), who later became the first Tokugawa shogun,a set foot in the fishing village of Edo in eastern Japan.
- g 1/08 pp. 11-14 - Awake!—2008

Funeral for a Former God (‎13 occurrences)
- By Awake! correspondent in Japan
  ...
  After reigning for more than 62 years, Japan’s Emperor Hirohito died this past January 7.
- g89 12/22 pp. 2-5 - Awake!—1989

Ingathering Brings Rejoicing in Japan (‎13 occurrences)
- Ingathering Brings Rejoicing in Japan
  ...
  So observed Charles T. Russell, the first president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, after his personal investigation of the religious situation in Japan in 1912.
- w89 11/1 pp. 23-27 - The Watchtower—1989

A Time for Everything in Japan (‎13 occurrences)
- A Time for Everything in Japan
  ...
  By Awake! correspondent in Japan
- g88 7/22 pp. 9-11 - Awake!—1988

What Is Causing the Problem? (‎13 occurrences)
- And why have countries like Japan and West Germany continued to enjoy rising trade surpluses against the United States in spite of the rising value of their currencies?
  ...
  Many people in the United States, for example, feel that while the United States has opened its markets to foreign trade, other countries—Japan and, to a lesser degree, West Germany and others—have not reciprocated.
- g87 8/22 pp. 5-7 - Awake!—1987

Oil—a Key to Global Power (‎13 occurrences)
- For example, Japan is a giant among industrial nations.
  ...
  Without doubt, then, for western Europe, Japan, and, to a growing extent, the United States, the oil supply has reached a critical stage.
- g74 2/22 pp. 16-22 - Awake!—1974

Bodily Training or Godly Devotion—Which? (‎13 occurrences)
- Soon after the start of the course, the school’s president, N. H. Knorr, announced that it was now possible for missionaries to go to Japan.
  ...
  All too quickly the course ended, and we were advised that we would wait in the United States until living quarters in Japan were arranged.
- w73 1/15 pp. 52-55 - The Watchtower—1973

We Were a Team (‎12 occurrences)
- Our few months at Gilead School flew by, and we received a missionary assignment to Japan.
  ...
  Since it took time to get our papers ready to go to Japan, Lloyd was once again assigned as a traveling overseer of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
- w01 4/1 pp. 24-29 - The Watchtower—2001

Would You Have an Abortion? (‎12 occurrences)
- By “Awake!” correspondent in Japan
  ...
  ● Elsewhere in Japan a husband tried emotionally to convince his wife: “In your present state of health you surely cannot bear a child.
- g82 3/8 pp. 16-20 - Awake!—1982

1971 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses (‎12 occurrences)
- In comparison with many other parts of the earth, Japan had to wait longer to hear the good news of the Kingdom.
  ...
  In the year 1912 the first president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, Charles T. Russell, visited Japan as the head of a committee of the International Bible Students Association, investigating the religious field in the Orient.
- yb71 pp. 5-71 - Yearbook—1971

Concluding the Report on Japan (‎12 occurrences)
- Concluding the Report on Japan
  ...
  AFTER discussing the Korean matters with the brothers, we discussed future expansion of the work in Nagoya, Japan.
- w51 11/1 pp. 648-652 - The Watchtower—1951

Surveys (‎11 occurrences)
- belief in Japan’s astrological calendar: g88 7/22 11
  ...
  computer-game players (Japan): g86 6/8 30
- dx86-26 - Index 1986-2026

Dawn Breaks in the Land of the Rising Sun (‎11 occurrences)
- ON September 6, 1926, a Japanese-born pilgrim (traveling overseer) in the United States returned to Japan as a missionary.
  ...
  It was a fine start, but how could this small group reach Japan’s 60 million people who needed to see the light of Bible truth?
- w14 11/15 pp. 31-32 - The Watchtower—2014

A Visit to Japan’s Hot Springs (‎11 occurrences)
- A Visit to Japan’s Hot Springs
  ...
  WRITER IN JAPAN
- g04 1/8 pp. 14-17 - Awake!—2004

“You Can Quit—We Did!” (‎11 occurrences)
- CORRESPONDENT IN JAPAN
  ...
  As the story goes, European ships that docked in Japan during the late 1500’s bore tobacco-smoking visitors, who appeared to be “making fire in their stomachs.”
- g98 12/8 pp. 15-17 - Awake!—1998

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