The is a
Baptist
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Christian denomination
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in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. It is affiliated with the
Baptist World Alliance
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. The headquarters is in
Saitama.
History
The Convention has its origins in an American mission of the
International Mission Board
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History
Thousands ...
in southwestern Japan in 1889. It was officially founded in 1947. According to a denomination census released in 2022, it claimed 320 churches and 13,975 members.
[ Baptist World Alliance]
Members
baptistworld.org, USA, retrieved February 4, 2023
References
Bibliography
*''The Southern Baptist Mission in Japan, 1889-1989'', by F. Calvin Parker (University Press of America, 1991)
External links
Japan Baptist Convention Official Page in Japanese
Japan Baptist Convention Disaster Relief Web-Blog in English
Baptist denominations in Asia
Baptist Christianity in Japan
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