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JAPAN UNION CONFERENCE

Organized 1917; reorganized 1919;
consolidated 1975; reorganized 1984, 1999

Territory: Japan; comprising the East Japan and West Japan Conferences, and the Okinawa Mission.

Statistics: Churches, 115; membership, 15,371; population, 127,370,000 (online statistics).

Telecommunications:

Telephone: 81 (45) 921-1121.

Fax: 81 (45) 921-2319.

E-mail: [email protected].

Website: www.adventist.jp.

Cable: "Adventist," Yokohama, Japan.

Address: 846 Kamikawai-cho, Asahi-ku; Yokohama 241-8501; Japan.

Express and Freight: Railway Station, Yokohama, Japan.

Administration:

President, Masumi Shimada.

Secretary, Yutaka Inada.

Treasurer, Mitsuhiro Shinasue; Associate, ___.

Executive Committee:

Masumi Shimada, Chair; Yutaka Inada, Secretary; Michiko Aki, Yukio Ebihara, Masataka Fujita, Teru Fukui, Satoru Gaja, Norihiko Hanada, Katsumi Higashide, Kazuhiko Hongo, Kenjiro Hori, Masuo Ikemasu, Mitsuo Ishii, Akinori Kaibe, Teruo Koromogawa, Shojiro Kudo, Hidesaburo Machida, Shinsaku Meichii, Masaki Moritake, Hiroaki Nishizawa, Kazuo Nohara, Shiro Onoue, Komeko Sakaino, Motoko Sakurai, Tsutomu Sensaki, Takashi Shiraishi, Mitsuhiro Shinasue, Hideyuki Tabata, Darrel L. Vaughan, Kenji Yamagata, Tadashi Yamaji, Masao Yanaga.

Departments:

Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries, Ministerial Association, and Trust Services, Tadashi Yamaji; Associate for Ministerial Association, Katsumi Higashide; Shepherdess International, Shizuko Ikemasu.

Children's Ministries, and Women's Ministries, Shizuko Ikemasu.

Communication, and Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, Yutaka Inada.

Education, Masumi Shimada.

Family Ministries, and Sabbath School and Personal Ministries, Yoshikazu Watanabe, Yoshiaki Takagi.

Health Ministries, Hiroshi Yamaji.

Publishing Ministries, Yoshio Ikeda.

Stewardship Ministries, Keunwan Lee.

Youth Ministries, Toshio Shibata.

Agency:

ADRA, Mitsuo Ishii.

Ministries and Services:

Adventist Book Center, Haruhito Osuga.

Adventist Mission, Archives, and ASI, Yutaka Inada.

Church Ministries, English Language Schools, International Ministries, Media Center, and Pioneer Mission Movement, Tadashi Yamaji.

Corporate Affairs, Hidesaburo Machida.

Retirement, Masao Fukushima.

Spirit of Prophecy, Akinori Kaibe.
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