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In modern times, the 1954 Colloquial Translation is often used instead. [ citation needed] Jehovah's Witnesses, 1973, 1985, 2019 [ edit ] Arimichi Ebizawa, "Bible in Japan --A History of Japanese Bible Translation,"(In Japanese) Kodansha, 1989, ISBN 4-06-158906-7, Section 4 We will seek to do this through educating, encouraging and equipping the Body of Christ so that, more and more, through an expanding network of relationships, the good news of Jesus Christ will be proclaimed clearly, and disciples of Jesus Christ multiplied, among the Japanese people, for his glory. (Matthew 28:19-20) Kenzo Tagawa, "New Testament as a Text," (In Japanese) Keisoshobou, 1997, ISBN 4-326-10113-X,pp.651-661 Norihisa Suzuki, Japanese in the Bible: A History of Translation, (In Japanese) Iwanamishoten, 2006, ISBN 4-00-023664-4, Section 4

Love is the most powerful force in the world. Love is God and God is Love. Confirm here: I John 4:8. I John 4:16. And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good. The Franciscans completed a translation of the whole Bible, based on the Greek and Hebrew text, in 1978. This project was inspired by the Jerusalem Bible. [31] Orthodox versions [ edit ]

Japanese Contemporary Bible

James and Charley Ballinger arrived in Tokyo in March 2022. James has been appointed as Director of the Samurai Projects, working to train the next generation of Japanese Christian leaders. There are two main translations of the Bible into Japanese widely in use today — the Japanese New Interconfessional Translation Bible (新共同訳聖書) and the New Revised Bible (新改訳聖書). The New Japanese Bible, published by the Organization for the New Japanese Bible Translation (新日本聖書刊行会) and distributed by Inochinokotoba-sha ( いのちのことば社), aims to be a literal translation using modern Japanese, while the New Interconfessional Version, published by the Japan Bible Society, aims to be ecumenically used by all Christian denominations and must therefore conform to various theologies. Protestant Evangelicals most often use the New Japanese Bible, but the New Interconfessional Version is the most widely distributed and the one used by the Catholic Church, the United Church of Christ, Lutheran Church factions and many Anglicans in Japan. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] New Interconfessional Version Jesuit missions [ edit ] Handbook of Christianity in Japan: Mark Mullins - 2003 Among these writings were the Gospels for the Sundays of the year and other Bible pericopes, such as Passion ... Captain John Saris, an English adventurer who spent about two years in Japan, made the following entry in his diary while in Kyoto on 9 October 1613: In this cittie of Meaco, the Portingall Jesuitts haue a verie statelie Colledge

In the Catholic Church, Emile Raguet of the MEP translated the New Testament from the Vulgate Latin version and published it in 1910. It was treated as the standard text by Japanese Catholics. [29] Federico Barbaro created a colloquialized version, which was published in 1957. He [ clarification needed] went on to translate the Old Testament in 1964. [30]JCL's vision is to help make a significant difference in the progress of the gospel among the Japanese over the first half of this century. The Second Vatican Council decided to promote ecumenism and emphasized respect for the Bible. Consortia between the Catholic and the Protestant churches were organized and translation projects were started in many countries, including Japan. The collaboration committee published the Interconfessional Translation Bible ( 共同訳聖書, kyōdō yaku seisho) of the New Testament in 1978, but it was not widely supported by both congregations. [23] [24] [ clarification needed] The committee then published a revised version in 1987, the New Interconfessional Translation Bible ( 新共同訳聖書, shin kyōdō yaku seisho), which included the Old Testament. [25] [26] It has been widely distributed by various organisations (such as Gideons International). The next edition was planned to be released in 2016. [ needs update] It is to “ make a significant difference …” because that is what we believe God can bring about. The gospel probably first reached Japan in 1549, but estimates today of the number of true disciples of Jesus Christ in Japan vary between around 0.1% and 0.5% of Japan’s population of 127 million. We long to see a significant increase in the proportion of Japanese who worship God. Some, such as Protestant Fujihara Fujio, have criticized the style of the 1901 translation. In the 1930s, Orthodox Christians called for the translation to be revised, as they felt that the translation was difficult to understand. However, in an effort to ensure the accuracy of the translation, Nicholas opposed any such changes. [ citation needed] In 2019, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, Stephen Lett, released a revised edition of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures with the same name. [40] This translation was based from the English 2013 revision of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. [41] [42] This revised edition in Japanese includes the use of more modern and understandable language, clarified Biblical expression, and appendices, among other changes. [43] [36] Comparison [ edit ] Translation