Postby Bobtheduck » Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:18 pm
less than 1 percent of Japanese people are Christians (partly because of a racist attitude that the christians in missionary producing countries (US, Canada, Mexico, UK, most european countries, Korea, etc...) has had towards Japan... Most of them view Japan "inpenatrable" and the rest of the people with problems have a more direct racism... I feel this will change, and is changing. We'll see more of Japan turn to Jesus in the near Future.
My Japanese Teacher (who I think is Catholic) said that in the US, among visiting Japanese, there is a much bigger percentage of Christians. It may be a prime place for Japanese Christians to visit because there are good Christian Universities and a lot of Churches and Christians in the US (though I'd always been one for Quality over quantity *cough*)
What I think should happen is that the Christians in Japan should stop leaving Japan! I'm happy for the ones that are here that I can get to know right now, but if the Japanese Christians keep coming to the US, they'll have no hold in Japan... I know there is musical talent among those many many Christian Japanese visitors, so if they'd get together and go back to Japan with their teams and such, they could make a big impact...
Many of the Japanese Christians I know here want to reach the non-christian Japanese students who come here for university (international study which, of course, looks GREAT on resumeés) That's a very worth cause, and they should stick with it if that's what God has for them, but I still feel there should be people with musical talent that go back to Japan... I have no clue how the recording industry works in Japan, but is it possible for there to be independent artists cutting their own albums? That may be a more plausible outlet than going with a big company that may frown on religious material.
I don't have any Christian J-pop to give, but I know how to find Japanese praise music...
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