References
1 Don Wright, Operation Japan Prayer Guide, 5th edition (2019), 10.
2 Roger W. Lowther, The Broken Leaf: Meditations on Art, Life, and Faith in Japan (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2019).
3 Eiraku Maiko, “Japan’s ‘Hikikomori’ are growing older,” NHK World-Japan, May 6, 2019, https://bit.ly/2FKHg6j.
4 “Child Suicides at Highest Rate Ever in Japan,” nippon.com, November 5, 2019, https://bit.ly/3aVsVj3.
5 “Japan the only G-7 country where young people are most likely to die from suicide,” The Mainichi, July 17, 2019, https://bit.ly/34ghDEB, Japanese original by Takuya Murata.
6 Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, “Monthly Report,” Statistics Bureau of Japan, March 1, 2020, https://bit.ly/3aInsvE.
7 データブック日本宣教のこれからが見えてくるーキリスト教の30年後を読む[Databook:
Seeing the Future of Mission in Japan—Christianity in 30 years’ time] (Japan: Inochi no kotoba sha, 2016), 11.
8 “Unreached: 100 Largest,” Joshua Project, https://bit.ly/3huwsHz (accessed
August 2020).
9 John Wm. Mehn, Multiplying Churches in Japanese Soil (Colorado: William Carey Library, 2017), 77.
10 データブック日本宣教のこれからが見えてくるーキリスト教の30年後を読む[Databook:
Seeing the Future of Mission in Japan—Christianity in 30 years’ time] (Japan: Inochi no kotoba sha, 2016), 45.
11 From “Summary Report 2016,” Ministry of Health, Labour, Welfare. More detail available on request at jp.info@omfmail.com.
12 From “2015 Population Census,” Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. More detail available on request at jp.info@omfmail.com.
13 Matthew Cummings, “Welcoming them home,” Japan Harvest, https://bit.ly/31itLDf (accessed August 2020).
Links accompanying infographics in the prayer guide
Article 8, “Mental and emotional health,” https://bit.ly/2ZgSXIH
Article 9, “Aging society,” https://bit.ly/343XOAi
Article 18, “Church planting,” https://bit.ly/3IR4I2r