Catholicism in Japan

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DebChris said:
My parents never made a big deal about it. The only reason I know how many they sponsored comes from a visit with my mother. There was a televangelist on TV who asked the question, “How many people have you brought to Christ?” My mother said, “At least six.” Then she told me it was because they saw our “loving family.”
Yes, they did take pictures. It is only from reading this thread that it dawned on me that it was always couples. The family is very important in Japanese culture.
Every year, the chaplaincy in Yokohama sponsored an “adopt an orphan for a day.” There would be a picnic at this competitive swim place with pools of different sizes and depths. We always “adopted” at least two or three boys, partly because our family was already large. The idea was for the orphans to experience family life, if only for a day.
My parents also played Santa and Mrs. Claus every Christmas at an orphanage.
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Thanks again for sharing. This is such a neat story.
 
Interesting post. I am currently in the Navy with orders to the Naval Base Yokosuka in Japan. The only dioceses I could find near that area was the Tokyo Archdiocese and the diocese in Yokohama. Does anyone know of any good Traditional Latin Right Parishes in those areas? 🙂

It’s sad to see that Catholicism is so scarce in Japan. Less than 1%😦
 
Mike5575 said:
Interesting post. I am currently in the Navy with orders to the Naval Base Yokosuka in Japan. The only dioceses I could find near that area was the Tokyo Archdiocese and the diocese in Yokohama. Does anyone know of any good Traditional Latin Right Parishes in those areas? 🙂

It’s sad to see that Catholicism is so scarce in Japan. Less than 1%😦
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Last I heard a year or so back they were hard to find in Japan – we can but pray in future they will not be and ask for the Latin masses there!

I love Japan, and keep wishing I knew someone who loved the saints enough to do some translations to make quotations available for them. If anything can inspire the Japanese to tradition and love of the Church, the saints can. People deserve to hear them! 🙂
 
Mikki and Companions are Japanese Saints. They were martyred for their faith.
 
Mike5575 said:
Interesting post. I am currently in the Navy with orders to the Naval Base Yokosuka in Japan. The only dioceses I could find near that area was the Tokyo Archdiocese and the diocese in Yokohama.
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Well, based on the CBCJ’s website, there are a total of only 16 Catholic dioceses (technically, 3 archdioceses + 13 dioceses) for the 47 subnational jurisdictions of Japan!

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The Diocese of Sapporo (Hokkaidō)
The Diocese of Niigata (Niigata, Yamagata, Akita Prefectures)
The Diocese of Sendai (Miyagi, Iwate, Aomori, Fukushima Prefectures)
The Diocese of Saitama (Saitama, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki Prefectures)
The Archdiocese of Tōkyō (Tōkyō & Chiba Prefecture)
The Diocese of Yokohama (Kanagawa, Yamanashi, Shizuoka, Nagano Prefectures)
The Diocese of Nagoya (Aichi, Gifu, Ishikawa, Fukui, Toyama Prefectures)
The Diocese of Kyōto (Kyōto, Shiga, Nara, Mie Prefectures)
The Archdiocese of Ōsaka (Ōsaka, Wakayama, Hyōgo Prefectures)
The Diocese of Hiroshima (Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Shimane, Okayama, Tottori Prefectures)
The Diocese of Takamatsu (Kagawa, Ehime, Tokushima, Kōchi Prefectures)
The Diocese of Ōita (Ōita, Miyazaki Prefectures)
The Diocese of Fukuoka (Fukuoka, Saga, Kumamoto Prefectures)
The Diocese of Kagoshima (Kagoshima Prefecture)
The Archdiocese of Nagasaki (Nagasaki Prefecture)
The Diocese of Naha (Okinawa Prefecture)
 
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