Links
#1 Website pick
Lots of good information on Japan and a great place to learn about ministry to in a Japanese cultural context.
Bible Colleges
Christian Bible Institute: Located in Nagoya.
Tokyo Christian University: Located in Tokyo.
Ministries
Family Forum Japan: An outreach to youth and families via issues that people face.
CAN: Christian in the arts network.
Japan Alive: A ministry with an unbiased approach seeks to provide sex education, alternatives to abortion, and post abortion counseling, click here for English.
JCFN: Japanese Christian Fellowship Newtwork
JEMA: Japan Evangelical Missions Association
JEMS: Japanese Evangelical Missions Society
Let’s Love Japan: Proclaiming the Good News to Japanese through Entertainment.
LOJEA: A clothing brand that desires to sow sees of the gospel with fashion throughout Japan and the world.
OMF Japan: Overseas Missionary Fellowship.
Reaching Japan for Christ Network: Networking people who are reaching out to Japanese. Informing, connecting, encouraging and providing resources for the ministry.
Student Impact: Japan Campus Crusade for Christ.
Ministry Resources
Christian Answers: A Japanese version of a English web ministry with a lot of apologetics information.
Biblica: Japanese Living bible online in pdf format.
Gospel Light Store: A place to Christian books, music, and various items
Japan Bible Society: For English click here.
Japanese Sign Language Bible: For YouTube videos click here.
Jinseio Kaeru Hiketsu: Power to Change in Japanese, for English click here.
Joshua Project: A research initiative seeking to highlight the ethnic people groups of the world with the least followers of Jesus Christ.
NEXT Manga: The bible in manga formate, really cool!
Student in Japan: Great for Japanese students wanting to lean about Jesus.
Who is Jesus?: A lot of good information about Jesus provided in Japanese and English.
Culture
Discover Japan: A great site to learn about specific topics in Japanese culture.
I Speak Japanese: Learn Japanese language and culture online.
Japan Bump: The best Japanese news, videos and pictures on the web as dictated by the JapanBump community.
Tofugu: Wonky Japanese language and culture blog.
YouTube – Journeyman Pictures: Many documentaries on Japan, type “Japan in the search box
YouTube – HIROKOCHANNEL’s Channel: Teach Japanese, English and Japanese Culture on video.
YouTube – Tokyocooney’s Channel: Life in Tokyo.
What Japan Thinks: From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys.
Language Tools
Denshi Jisho: Online Japanese dictionary, has a very helpful kanji search by radical.
Furiganizer: Adds furigana to Japanese text.
Yamasa: Online kanji dictionary, shows stroke order for each kanji.
Japan news
CNNGO Tokyo: The best recommendations on where to sleep, eat, drink, shop & play in Tokyo.
ikjeld.com: News and photos of Japan, dive deeper into Japan with Japan Correspondent Kjeld Duits.
Japan Today: Japan breaking news.
NewsManga: Read the news in manga formate, pretty cool!
News On Japan: Brings together news on Japan from many different sources.
NHK World: Japan’s national public broadcasting organization.
Resources for foreigners (like me
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Berlitz: A company in Japan that provides English teaching jobs, for English click here.
Flutter Scape: For those outside Japan this is a good place to buy Japanese products
Gaijin Pot: Classifieds foreigners living in Japan.
Jorudan Train Route Finder: A train route finder in English
Sakura House: Tokyo apartment & guest house agency
Tenso: This website helps you purchase products from Japanese shopping website which does not support international shipment.
The Flying Pig: Not everyone can get to a Costco warehouse very easily, and Internet ordering isn’t available. This site was launched to overcome these issues.








