The Cross and the Rising Sun: The Canadian Protestant Missionary Movement in the Japanese Empire, 1872-1931

Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Preface Illustrations Introduction Early Missions in Japan Early Missions in Korea and Taiwan CHAPTER ONE Home Base and Overseas Missions Church Union Missionary Societies Foreign Missions Secretaries Canadian Methodists and Anglicans Women's Missionary Work Canadian Presbyterians in Korea Mission in North Taiwan CHAPTER TWO Early Days in Japan Bunmei-Kaika and Western Teachers Canadian Methodist Missionaries The Shizuoka Band CHAPTER THREE The Koishikawa Band From Yokohama to Koishikawa Cochran at the Dojinsha School The Ushigome Church CHAPTER FOUR Contrasts in Japan and Taiwan Numazu Yamanashi Prefecture The Black-Bearded Barbarian in Taiwan Christianity in Taiwan and Japan Vll IX Xl XIX 3 13 18 18 23 24 28 29 31 33 35 36 38 41 51 52 57 65 71 72 76 80 83 Vlll THE CROSS AND THE RISING SUN CHAPTER FIVE Christianization in Japan .... .......... ......... ............. ............ ...... 87 Eby and Immediate Christianization .. ..... .. ........... .. .. .. ...... .. .. 88 The Self-Support Band ........ .... .. ... .. ...... ........ .. .. .. . 94 The Japan Conference ......... .................. .. .. .. . 97 The Central Tabernacle ......... ......................... .. .. ......... 99 CHAPTER SIX Missionary Life in the Japanese Empire ............ ........... .... ..... 102 Lifestyle of the Missionary ...... ...... .. .. .. ............................ 102 Intellectual Pursuits ............. .................... ............................ III CHAPTER SEVEN Missionaries and Education .... Schools for Girls ....... . Schools for Boys ..................... . The Kwansei Gakuin ...... . Special Schools ................ . Mission Schools in Korea .. . The Taiwan Shoestring ............. . The Canadian Contribution CHAPTER EIGHT Evangelism and Social Work Problems and Opportunities .. Interdenominational Evangelism Local-Level Evangelism ..... Social Work .......... . The Korean Contrast .......... . Evangelism in Taiwan CHAPTER NINE Democracy and Imperialism Missionaries and Japanese Immigration to Canada .................... . The Movement toward Democracy ......................................... . Canadian Presbyterians and the Beginnings of Japanese Rule in Korea ......... ........... ............................. . The March I, 1919, Movement ...................................... . The Chientao Intervention ........................ . The Taiwanese Contrast CHAPTER TEN Toward the Future Notes ...................... . Select Bibliography Index ............... . 116 117 125 130 133 136 140 144 147 148 155 158 162 166 173 178 180 183 186 188 196 208 215 222 248 262 ...