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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, 107; membership, 15,307; population, 128,100,000 (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, Haruhito Ohsuga.

Executive Committee:

Masumi Shimada, Chair; Yutaka Inada, Secretary; Yukio Ebihara, Norio Fujie, Masataka Fujita, Mari Fukaya, Isamu Fukushima, Satoru Gaja, Norihiko Hanada, Katsumi Higashide, Kazuhiko Hongo, Kenjiro Hori, Masamitsu Isa, Mitsuo Ishii, Toyoki Isobe, Nobuko Kitabayashi, Yoshitaka Kobayashi, Shojiro Kudo, Hidesaburo Machida, Shiro Masamoto, Shinsaku Meichii, Kiyoto Nagano, Haruhito Ohsuga, Shiro Onoue, Mitsuhiro Shinasue, Takashi Shiraishi, Sogen Tomihama, Darrel L. Vaughan, Kenji Yamagata, Hiroshi Yamaji, Tadashi Yamaji, Toshiharu Yamaji.

Departments:

Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries, and Ministerial Association, Tadashi Yamaji; Associate for Ministerial Association, Norihiko Hanada; Shepherdess International, Shizuko Ikemasu.

Children's Ministries, Health Ministries, and Sabbath School and Personal Ministries, Hiroshi Yamaji.

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

Education, Shiro Onoue.

Family Ministries, and Stewardship Ministries, Norihiko Hanada.

Publishing Ministries, Yoshio Ikeda.

Trust Services, ___; Norihiko Hanada.

Women's Ministries, Shizuko Ikemasu.

Agency:

ADRA, Mitsuo Ishii.

Ministries and Services:

Adventist Book Center, ATN, Media Center, Spirit of Prophecy, and Voice of Prophecy, Tadashi Yamaji.

Adventist Mission, Archives, ASI, Church Ministries, English Language Schools, and International Ministries, Yutaka Inada.

Corporate Affairs, Mitsuhiro Shinasue.

Frontline, Pathfinders, and Youth Ministries, Toshio Shibata.

Global Mission, Norihiko Hanada.

Pioneer Mission Movement, Norihiko Hanada.

Retirement, Eiko Muto.
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