JAPAN
(See also Japanese [Language]; Okinawa; Shinto)
(Note centered heading below: Jehovah’s Witnesses)
abacus: g86 12/8 19
abortion: g89 11/8 22; g88 4/8 26; g87 4/8 4, 11-12
adults buy talking dolls for loneliness: g87 6/8 30
advertising:
diamond engagement rings: g88 2/8 8
agriculture:
record tomato plant: g88 9/22 30
use of music: g88 11/22 30
alcoholic beverages:
deaths from chugalugging: g93 1/8 28
Non Drinkers Associate: g90 10/22 28-29
alcoholism: g91 10/8 29
animals:
cows herded by music: g93 3/22 28
habu (snake) (Ryukyu Islands): g97 4/8 30; g96 7/8 9-11
koalas from Australia: g86 8/22 26-27
loggerhead turtle: g02 4/22 28
pet cemeteries: g88 8/22 30
tree frog’s calls: ijwwd article 36
automobiles:
for disabled: g86 11/22 30-31
problem of parking: g92 3/22 29
aviation:
aftermath of disaster (1985): g86 8/8 4; g86 12/22 29
birds scared off by painted eyes: g87 4/22 31
fishing line used to clear away birds: g88 10/22 29-30
Kansai International Airport: g96 1/8 24-25
babies:
infant mortality rates: g90 6/22 29; g90 11/22 28
named Devil: g94 9/22 28
schools for: g86 11/8 30
Bible translations:
Common Bible: g87 9/22 30
New World Translation: km 4/88 3; g87 9/22 30
birds:
crows commute: g98 1/8 28
Japanese ibis: g86 11/22 30
short-tailed albatross: g98 5/22 15-17
bridges:
Akashi Kaikyo Bridge: g98 9/22 28
Seto Ohashi Bridge: g89 2/22 24-25
Buddhism: sh 196-198
bar opened by priests: g93 9/22 29
jazz concert: g93 10/22 28
lack of monks: g94 4/22 28
lack of priests: w90 9/15 29
manual on Zen priesthood: g94 1/8 28-29
sect ashamed of World War II cooperation: w90 9/15 29
temple plagued with woodpeckers: g01 4/22 29
business:
benriya (useful persons): g95 4/22 28-29
breaking marriages: g03 6/22 28
cultured pearls: g88 1/22 24-26
device for translating dog woofs: g03 12/8 28
experimentation with behavior-altering scents: g90 3/8 28
letters from dead relatives: g88 4/8 30
“paper food”: g87 10/8 30
renting fake family members: g92 6/22 28
renting guests: g95 4/22 28-29; g89 10/8 29
revenge business: g98 12/22 29
schools teaching smiling: g99 8/22 29
Tsukiji fish market: g04 1/22 16-18
vending machines: g97 2/8 28
calendar: g88 7/22 9-11
cemeteries:
multistory: g89 6/8 28
pets: g88 8/22 30
youths buy own graves: g88 3/22 29-30
centenarians: g92 7/8 29
children:
abuse: g00 7/8 29; g91 12/22 28
aspiring students worship by facsimile: g87 5/22 29-30
call counseling service just for conversation: g90 4/8 28
chickens depicted with four legs: g89 6/22 29
computer games: g86 6/8 30
cosmetics: g02 2/8 29
effect of passive indoor activities: g91 5/8 28
ill from school pressure: g92 12/8 30
increase in smoking: g86 12/8 31
not preferred in divorce settlements: g93 4/22 28
parents spy on to protect from bullies: g99 1/22 29
survey on concept of death: g03 3/8 28
survey on what is most important: g88 4/22 30
ulcers: g88 12/8 29
victims of crime involving social networking: g 10/13 3
Christmas: w91 12/15 3-4; w86 12/15 3-6
city parks:
intentionally in natural state: g94 7/8 29
comic books: g88 2/22 24; g88 8/22 28
sex portrayed: g96 7/22 8-9; w90 6/15 30
concert-hall simulation: g88 5/8 30
conferences:
Kyoto (global warming) (1997): g 11/11 12; g03 11/22 6; g98 5/22 5
construction:
Horyuji Temple: g95 10/22 17-18
use of wood: g95 10/22 17-19
courts:
amount of litigation: g88 5/22 12-13
parents to pay for youths’ crimes: g93 4/8 29
patients’ rights: g00 9/22 28; w98 12/1 22; w98 12/15 26-29; g98 8/22 11; w86 6/15 14
student exemption from kendo drills upheld (1994, 1996): w98 12/1 22; yb98 137-138; yb97 14; w96 11/1 19-21; g96 5/22 30; g96 9/8 28; g95 10/8 10-14
cremation: g86 4/8 30
crime: g95 5/22 28; g90 4/22 29
cheating on railway fares, taxes: w86 11/15 10
counterfeit gold coins: g90 6/22 29
fraud: g97 9/22 6-7, 9
pickpocketing: g01 9/22 29
sex murderer blames videos: g90 3/22 29
women who commit: g90 4/22 29
yakuza: g97 3/8 4, 6-13
customs: jv 531
slurping noodle soup: g02 1/22 29
divorce: g93 7/8 3
Alzheimer’s disease as grounds: g91 2/22 29
children not preferred in divorce settlements: g93 4/22 28
increase: g90 5/22 28
“in-house divorce”: g90 5/22 28
“live-in divorce”: g93 7/8 4
earthquakes:
counterweights for buildings: g89 3/8 30
earthquake-resistant construction: g95 6/8 26-27
effect of repeat of 1923 earthquake: g89 6/8 29
husbands insensitive to wives: g96 3/22 28
Itō (1989): g90 2/8 29
Kobe (1995): yb98 142; w96 12/1 3, 7; g96 4/22 30; g96 11/8 30; g95 8/22 22-27
Pacific Ocean (with tsunami and nuclear disaster) (2011): mrt article 40; g 7/14 5; yb12 18-21, 23; g 11/12 29; w11 12/1 3; g 12/11 14-20
stress symptoms from: g90 2/8 29
Tokyo, Yokohama (1923): g 1/08 14; g87 12/22 24-25
economy:
trade war with U.S.: g87 8/22 2-8
education:
Chinese students: w89 6/15 28
cost-benefits of university: g88 9/22 29
schools for babies: g86 11/8 30
electronics:
bugs for eavesdropping: g95 1/8 28
“love beepers”: g99 1/8 28
Emperor Hirohito (Showa): g89 12/22 3-5, 7-9
birthday ceremonies: g86 9/8 29
considered a deity: sh 198; g89 12/22 3, 9
divinity renounced: re 240; g89 12/22 3-4, 7-8
fatal illness not known by: g89 12/22 29
funeral: g89 12/22 3-5
response by readers of Awake! article: g90 6/8 30
employment:
concern for workers: g87 11/22 29
corporate fitness programs: g87 2/22 21, 23
depression before retirement: g93 3/22 29
industriousness of people: w89 7/15 3; g86 3/22 29-30
mass baptism of initiates: w86 5/1 22
professionalism, dedication: w86 5/1 22
stress kills executives: g87 12/22 29
unemployment: g87 7/22 30; g87 8/22 4
Expo 2005 (Aichi): g 3/07 23-25
families:
effect of long work hours: g90 7/8 28-29
husbands willing to help at home: g92 2/8 29
respect for fathers: g86 6/8 30
seminars for fathers: g94 6/8 29
single-parent: g02 10/8 5
weakening of ties: g 9/09 6; w97 6/15 21; w97 9/1 3; g94 12/8 28-29; g88 3/22 29-30
farms:
city dwellers moving to: g97 6/8 28
crows outsmart farmers: g95 1/22 29
fish:
eels used for testing water: g98 7/8 29
Tsukiji fish market: g04 1/22 16-18
Flower Expo (1990): g91 5/22 23-26
food:
meals: g91 4/22 24-26
natto (fermented soybeans): g04 9/8 18-19
vinyl replicas: g05 5/8 26-27
forests: g89 2/8 30
funeral customs: g92 7/22 5
furoshiki (wrapping cloths): g94 9/22 26-27
gambling: g95 7/22 28
garbage crisis: g 12/07 29; g90 9/22 5
gardens: g97 4/8 6-7; g93 6/22 25-27
geisha:
life story: g96 2/22 19-24; g96 10/22 30
gold from sewage: g 2/10 30
government:
policy of seclusion (1639-1854): w89 1/15 3-6
role of emperor: g89 12/22 7-9
survey on motives of officials: g97 6/22 29
Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867): g 1/08 11-13
guns:
deaths from: g95 8/8 28
health and disease:
AIDS: g95 12/22 29; g94 2/22 29
blood tainted with hepatitis C: g05 8/22 28-29
cancer diagnosis kept from patients: g90 10/22 20, 22
cancer in nonsmoking mates: g86 1/22 31
cancer in smokers: g86 9/8 11
eating disorders: g94 4/22 5
effect of Western life-styles: g96 3/22 29
right to know: g89 12/22 29
highways through office buildings: g91 7/8 29
Hiroshima:
atom bomb: g04 3/8 3; yb97 232; g91 12/8 6-8
atom bomb deaths: g90 9/22 28
atom bomb effects: g89 10/8 6
atom bomb’s name: g86 5/22 3
atom bomb survivors: g94 10/8 11-15; g92 5/8 18
mayor’s “Peace Declaration” (1991): g91 12/8 28
Peace Memorial: g 11/14 16
homes: g91 4/22 24-26; g91 10/22 15-17
heating versus tradition: g88 8/8 29
homosexuality:
romance novels: g94 3/8 30; g93 10/22 29
hot springs: g04 1/8 14-17
ikebana (flower arrangement): g05 8/8 20-21
industry:
crystal industry (Kofu): g90 4/8 22-23
dolls that resemble one’s baby: g99 11/8 29
Minamata chemical discharge: re 175
press for printing billboards: g86 6/8 31
robot kills worker: g87 10/8 29
robots replaced by people: g97 7/8 29
tick-killing vacuum cleaner: g90 6/22 29
insects:
Great Purple butterfly: g88 2/22 17
Japanese weevil: g88 2/22 16
leaf-cutter bee: g88 2/22 18
ticks: g90 6/22 29
karaoke: g94 7/8 29
kimono: g91 2/8 23-25
legend on settlement of: sh 170
library of Hojo Sanetoki (1275): g05 5/22 20
life expectancy: g88 10/8 23
maps: g 12/11 16; g 1/08 11; w06 8/1 13
marriage:
Catholic Church terminates “dream weddings”: g87 2/22 30
custom of introducing wife with term Gusai: w89 5/15 14
earthquake (Kobe, 1995) brings marital problems: g96 3/22 28
efforts to find brides: g87 9/8 29
European Catholic churches used for weddings: g90 1/8 29
platinum wedding gown: g90 9/8 28
Western-style weddings: g03 8/22 28
medical personnel:
burnout syndrome: g86 12/8 29
medicine:
anemic premature baby: g90 12/8 28
artificial blood vessel that “grows”: g88 7/8 29
blood donations: g03 5/22 29; g92 6/22 29
bloodless surgery: g92 11/8 31
blood plasma consumption: g90 10/22 4-5
blood transfusions: g91 10/22 29; g90 10/22 12
danger of transfusing fresh blood or blood from family members: g92 11/8 29
HIV carriers not told: g95 12/22 29
HIV-infected blood: g 11/14 3; g94 6/22 28
right to refuse blood: g94 8/22 29
sale of donated blood: g90 10/22 6
testing blood donors for AIDS: g92 12/8 31
military:
expansion during 1930’s: g87 3/22 25
proposal to build own jet fighters: g87 10/22 30
money:
yen rising in value: g94 2/8 29
most southerly territory:
erosion protection: g88 5/8 29-30
Mt. Fuji: sh 190-191
Nagasaki:
atom bomb deaths: g90 9/22 28
atom bomb’s name: g86 5/22 3
why only half destroyed by atom bomb: g86 5/22 3
New Year’s celebrations: g86 12/22 20-21
Nikko National Park: g89 6/22 9
older people:
abuse: g94 11/8 28
origami: g04 9/22 26-27
patriotism: g93 10/8 29; g92 4/8 31
police: g02 7/8 6-7
campaign to improve politeness: g88 6/8 29
pollution:
acid rain: g92 10/22 28-29
Minamata: re 175
wine from rubber waste: g87 6/8 30
population: g88 11/8 29-30
pornography: g96 7/22 8-9; g86 12/22 4
magazines portraying sex: w90 6/15 30
videos: g95 3/22 29
railways:
bullet train mimics kingfisher’s beak: g 4/10 29
magnetic suspension and propulsion: g 3/07 24; g98 10/8 25; g87 8/8 30
Seikan Tunnel: g88 8/22 30
world speed records: g87 8/8 30
religion: jv 490; w91 2/1 3-4; g91 4/22 28
Armageddon views: g95 11/22 28-29
Bible classes in university: g93 9/8 28
Buddhism: sh 188-189, 196-198
Buddhist memorial service for ticks: g90 6/22 29
Bungotai Bible translation: yb98 80
Catholic Church banned (1500’s): w89 1/15 3
cause of seclusion policy (1639-1854): w89 1/15 3
Christendom’s missionaries: g94 11/8 23
claim that Jesus’ grave is in Japan: g98 4/8 15
computerized ‘Lord of Hades’: g89 2/22 29-30
decline: g 11/15 4; g03 10/8 28; g95 3/8 29; w91 2/1 3; g89 4/22 29
Easter: g86 3/22 8
failure of Christendom’s missionary work: re 229; w87 1/1 6
fear of jealous goddess: g91 2/22 28
feminists reject female deity: g89 10/22 29
fraud: g97 9/22 9
“hidden Christians” during suppression of Catholicism: w91 12/15 6-7
interfaith: w88 3/15 8-9; w86 12/15 3-4
involvement in war: re 245, 268
Kyodan: jv 490
membership statistics: w86 12/15 3-4
neighborhood blocks Buddhist temple: g89 4/22 29
“new religions”: w91 2/1 4-5
sale of prayer services for dead: g89 11/22 28-29
warrior-monks: re 245
when freedom granted: w86 9/1 10
Zen Buddhism: g89 4/22 19
rock music:
“earthquake” created by fans: g90 9/8 28
roller coaster: g02 9/22 28
Sapporo:
Snow Festival: g94 2/8 22-23
schools:
children make own lunches: g 12/09 14
teachers oppose nationalism: g93 10/8 29; g89 3/8 30
science:
Earth Simulator (supercomputer): g03 8/8 28-29
findings on benefit of praise: g 11/13 3
“Moses Effect” (magnetic field parts water): ct 126-127; g98 1/22 28
Shinto: sh 187-204; g89 5/8 21-22
ancestor worship: ie 10-11
decline: re 240
emperors deified: sh 198-200; g89 12/22 3-7, 9
“lucky bags” for lottery tickets: g95 2/22 29
role in World War II: re 240; sh 201-203; w89 5/15 4-5
shrine for divorces: g95 9/8 28
shrines: wp16.2 8; g89 5/8 23
worship by facsimile at temples: g87 5/22 29-30
smoking: g 3/14 3; g98 12/8 15-16; g94 2/8 29; g86 9/8 11; g86 12/8 31
subways:
mirrors on station walls prevent suicides: g86 5/22 30
suicide: g 11/06 27; g01 3/8 28; g00 1/22 28
attitude toward: w95 12/1 6
seppuku (hara-kiri): g01 10/22 3-4
sumo wrestlers: g00 5/22 29
superstitions: sh 71
tax evasion: w86 11/15 10
gold statues of Buddha: g90 11/22 29
tea: g89 9/8 14-16
television:
children made ill: g98 6/22 25
tipping: g86 6/22 26-27
Tokyo: g 1/08 11-14; g01 7/22 28; g94 1/22 26
Lost and Found Center: g04 8/22 29
tourism:
“No Foreigners” signs: g95 2/8 29
trees:
cherry blossoms: g05 4/8 14-17
cypress resistant to pests: g96 7/8 28
tunnel:
world’s longest undersea (Seikan Tunnel): g88 8/22 30
universities:
Bible classes: g93 9/8 28
Valentine’s Day: g95 2/8 26-27
visits by Commodore M. C. Perry: w89 1/15 3-5
volcanoes: g04 1/8 15
eruption of Mt. Fugen (1991): w00 2/15 3-4, 6-7
eruption of Mt. Mihara (1986): g87 7/8 2, 4-9
war:
Catholic involvement in feudal wars: re 268
China (1937): g87 4/8 17, 19
warrior-monks: re 245
washi (handmade paper): g92 1/8 23-25
World War II: w98 12/1 28
balloon bombs over U.S.: g95 12/8 29; g88 2/22 29
conquests: g87 4/22 16, 18
deaths from atom bombs: g90 9/22 28
defeats: g87 4/22 18-19; g87 5/8 19; g86 5/22 3
invasion of Indonesia: yb16 108-109
invasion of Thailand: w88 11/1 13
Pearl Harbor: g91 12/8 3-11; g87 4/22 16
role of emperor: g89 12/22 8-9
role of Shinto: re 240; sh 201-203; w89 5/15 4-5
suicide missions: g02 12/8 18-20; g91 1/22 9-12
women captured for sex: g92 10/8 28
yosegi (wood handicraft): g01 5/8 18-19
youths:
addiction to mobile phones: g03 1/8 21
alcohol abuse: g94 5/8 28-29
attempt suicide to see previous life: w90 11/15 28
attitude toward disobedience and prostitution: g97 10/8 28-29
attitude toward employment: g 1/14 7; g88 6/22 30
buying own graves: g88 3/22 29-30
criminals: g91 3/22 28
decline in literacy: g03 5/8 29
disruptive students: g00 6/8 28-29
male cosmetic expenditures: g87 9/8 29
reclusive (hikikomori): g 9/09 4; g03 2/8 29
respect for fathers: g86 6/8 30
stress: g88 12/8 29
student protests during 1960’s: g87 6/8 22
view of society: g92 2/22 28-29
Jehovah’s Witnesses
apostasy: yb98 69
assemblies: w14 11/15 31; w03 10/1 26; w98 12/1 29; yb98 82-83
Assembly Halls: yb98 82, 117-118, 132-133; yb95 25; jv 329-330
grumbling neighbor helps: yb92 10
local officials visit: yb97 25
association Todaisha (Lighthouse Association): yb98 68-69
auxiliary pioneers: yb12 9; w90 3/1 27
101-year-old sister: yb12 9-10
Bethel family: w98 12/1 31
reassignments: yb17 13
blood issue: yb98 138-141
educating media and doctors: yb98 140-141
four-year-old’s heart surgery successful: g95 1/22 31
High Court awards damages for forced blood transfusion (1998): w98 12/1 22; w98 12/15 26-29; g98 8/22 11
media misrepresent child’s death: w89 11/1 25; g86 1/8 22-23
older missionary: yb98 74-75
supreme court victory on forced blood transfusions (2000): kr 161-162; g00 9/22 28
Branch Committee: w98 12/1 31; yb98 80, 101-102, 113-114, 116
branch office: w00 6/1 25; w98 12/1 30-31; jv 334-335, 394
cooperation with authorities on fire safety: w03 12/1 30
Ebina (1982): g00 12/22 19; yb98 118-120; w89 11/1 24-25; w87 1/1 31; yb87 8-10; g87 4/22 20-21; w86 1/1 25
Ebina (1989): yb98 127; jv 394; yb90 30, 33; w89 11/1 24-27; yb89 10-11; w86 1/1 17, 25
Ebina (1999): yb01 27-29; w00 6/1 25; w98 12/1 31; yb98 158-160; yb95 32
Kobe (1927): g00 12/22 19; yb98 68
legal desk: yb98 137
Numazu (1973): g00 12/22 19; yb98 110-111; jv 590, 592; w89 11/1 24
Regional Engineering Office: jv 332, 394
renovation (2023): hdu article 28
ships literature to Vladivostok (1995-2001): yb08 219
Tokyo (1927): yb98 68
Tokyo (1949): yb98 110; w89 11/1 23-24
Tokyo (1963): w00 6/1 25; yb98 110; w89 11/1 24
visit by executive: g93 6/22 11
visit by hotel manager: g99 12/22 32
visit by inactive publisher: w10 8/15 19
branch overseers: yb98 68-70, 87, 112, 115; yb88 141-142, 144
children commended: g94 7/22 27
colporteurs: w14 11/15 31-32; yb98 68-70; w88 5/1 22-23
columnist’s comments about visit to Kingdom Hall: w88 6/1 6-7
computers:
prepress systems: yb98 121-123
congregations: yb98 74, 82-84, 108-109, 147, 149-153; jv 501; yb88 5
conventions: yb98 67, 75, 114-117, 134-135; yb89 16; w88 5/1 24
delegates to conventions abroad: yb98 155-157
experiences: g86 5/8 25
quotes: g94 7/22 27; w89 6/15 20
court cases:
damages awarded for forced blood transfusion (1998): w98 12/1 22; w98 12/15 26-29; g98 8/22 11
damages awarded for forced confinement to “deprogram” (2001): yb02 15-16
forced blood transfusions violate patients’ rights (2000): kr 161-162; g00 9/22 28
student exemption from kendo drills upheld (1994, 1996): g00 4/22 24; w98 12/1 22; yb98 137-138; yb97 14; w96 11/1 19-21; g96 5/22 30; g96 9/8 28; g95 10/8 10-14
early witnessing: w14 11/15 31-32; yb98 68; jv 418-421, 535
earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster (2011): yb12 18-23
employee rehired for honesty: w87 11/15 6
employee’s neutrality rewarded: w88 5/1 19
experience of 2011 tsunami survivors: w17.07 19
families:
mother contracts ALS: g 10/09 24
top railway executive quits job for more time with children: g04 8/22 4, 6-7; yb98 127-129; w88 8/1 11
field ministry:
activity in 1992: jv 394; yb93 48-49
after 2011 tsunami: w15 12/15 19-20
business territory: w90 2/1 31
changed circumstances of public: yb98 145-147
immigrant field: w05 12/1 25; yb98 147-153; w94 1/1 16-17
“Jehus” (house cars): w14 11/15 32
magazine distribution: w90 3/1 26-29
street witnessing: w13 11/15 2
unassigned territory: yb98 96; yb93 48-49
growth: w15 11/15 30; w14 11/15 32; kr 97; jl lesson 14; w04 1/1 15; yb01 29; w00 6/1 22-25; w98 12/1 31; yb98 67-68, 73-75, 81-84, 87, 127, 147; jv 334, 491, 512; w92 9/1 19; w89 11/1 24-25; w87 1/1 6; w87 6/1 28
chart: jv 513
publisher peaks: yb87 253
Hospital Information Services:
assist Thai Witness needing brain surgery: w96 3/15 31
seminar (1990): yb98 139-140; g90 11/22 22
Hospital Liaison Committees: yb98 140-141; g92 11/8 31
Kingdom Halls: g 12/11 20; yb98 108-111, 130-131; yb94 14; jv 327
Kingdom Melodies played through school sound system: w88 9/1 32
Kingdom Ministry School: kr 185; yb98 96-97
letter of appreciation from elderly sister: w88 1/15 6
Memorial: yb98 78
Ministerial Training School: yb98 153-155
missionaries: w17.01 3; w15 11/15 30; w14 11/15 31; kr 184; jl lesson 14; w03 10/1 26-28; yb98 67, 70-85, 93-95, 160-161; w95 3/15 21-24; w94 8/15 20; jv 490-491, 530-531, 534-535, 538, 540; g91 12/8 9-10; w89 11/1 23-24, 26
from Hawaii: yb98 70-72; yb91 93
from Korea: yb98 78-79
to other lands: yb98 159
missionary homes: w03 10/1 26; w00 6/1 24-25; yb98 75, 78-79, 83, 95, 161; w95 3/15 21, 24; jv 491
modern history: yb98 67-161; jv 490-491
opposition before World War II: w88 5/1 23-24
persecution: re 43; jv 455; w88 5/1 24; yb88 144
arrests and imprisonment: yb98 68-70
persons:
Abe, Takashi: yb98 114
Aizawa, Yasushi: g03 12/8 12-15
Akashi, Junzo: yb98 68-70; w88 5/1 24-25; yb88 141-142, 154
Aono, Yoshimi: g91 1/22 9-13
Bailey, Richard: yb98 94, 113, 116
Barry, W. Lloyd and Melba: w01 4/1 27-29; yb98 72, 77-78, 82-83, 88, 112; jv 491
Dearn, Gordon: yb98 83
Dyer, Lois: yb98 72-73, 78, 83, 109, 160; w95 3/15 21-22; jv 534
Eto, Hiroko: yb98 97-98
Eto, Yuriko: yb98 98-99; w86 9/1 10-13
Fujii, Tsuyoshi: g05 8/8 20-23
Fujii, Yumiko: g88 2/22 23-27
Fujimoto, Ryosuke: yb98 113
Gregory, Gladys: yb98 79-81; w95 3/15 21
Gregory, Grace: yb98 79-81
Haslett, Donald and Mabel: w03 10/1 26; yb98 70-72, 74-75, 84, 88; jv 490
Heron, Molly: yb98 72-73, 78, 83, 109; w95 3/15 21
Hess, Martha: w95 3/15 23; w95 12/1 27
Hirano, Sumiko: w06 8/1 11-15
Hironaka, Tomiji: g92 5/8 14-19
Hollister, Robert R.: jv 421, 423
Honma, Toshio: yb98 112-113, 115, 122
Idei, Miyo: yb98 70-71; w91 9/1 10-14
Ikehata, Shigeo: yb98 113, 116
Ishii, Jizo and Matsue: w14 11/15 31; yb98 69-71; w93 12/15 14; jv 157, 452; w88 5/1 21-25
Iszlaub, Percy and Ilma: yb98 72-73, 76-77, 113-114
Iwasaki, Kiichi: w14 11/15 32
Kataoka, Yasuo: g97 3/8 11-13
Kawabata, Shizuko: g01 8/22 18-22
Kealoha, Rodney: yb98 145
Kinoshita, Rie: g90 10/22 20-23
Kobayashi, Kazuko: yb98 86-87, 89
Kobayashi, Kunihito: yb98 137-139
Koshino, Junji and Asano: w03 10/1 24-28
Kumagai, Atsushi and Michiyo: w15 12/15 28-31
Logan, Harvey and Kathleen: w21.01 27-28
MacKay, Vera: w95 3/15 21
Mackenzie, Fanny: jv 423-424
Mantz, James: yb98 113, 119-120, 124
Minoura, Kazumi: w14 11/15 32
Miura, Katsuo and Hagino: w14 11/15 31-32; yb98 70-71; g94 10/8 11-15; jv 452; w88 5/1 23; w88 5/15 20
Miura, Tsutomu: g94 10/8 11-15; w88 5/1 23
Moriyama, Takeo: g88 7/22 24-27
Nagasaki, Yoshihiro: yb98 101-102, 113, 116
Nakajima, Makoto: yb98 113, 116
Nako, Adeline: yb98 84-85, 95; g91 12/8 9-10
Nisbet, Robert: w03 4/1 30
Niwa, Toshiaki: g04 9/8 31; g02 12/8 18-21
Oda, Masataro: yb98 113-114, 116
Ogawa, Michiko: g99 12/22 13-16
Ota, Ikumatsu: w14 11/15 32
Pastor, Albert: w95 3/15 22
Samson, Lillian: yb98 84, 95; w95 3/15 23
Sato, Takako: yb98 85-86, 89
Shiroma, Richard and Myrtle: w95 3/15 22-23
Sugiura, Isamu: w98 12/1 27-31; yb98 80, 113, 116
Suzuki, Dai (blood case): g86 1/8 22-23
Takagi, Miyo: yb98 77-78
Takahashi, Sawako: g96 2/22 19-24
Takeda, Misae: kr 161-162
Tanaka, Kiichiro: yb98 113
Tanigawa, Elsie: yb98 71-73; w95 3/15 22
Thompson, Adrian: yb98 72-73, 75-76
Thompson, Norrine (Miller): yb98 72-73; w95 3/15 22
Tohara, Shinichi and Masako: yb98 71-73, 84; w95 3/15 22; w92 11/1 27-31; g91 12/8 9
Toma, Jerry and Yoshi: yb98 71-74; w95 3/15 23
Ulrich, Ruth: w00 6/1 20-25; yb98 161; w95 3/15 23-24
Wakui, Hisako: yb98 85-86, 89
Winteler, Lena: yb98 81-82; w95 3/15 21-22
Winteler, Margrit: yb98 82-84; w95 3/15 21
Yamada, Haruichi and Tane: w14 11/15 32
Yamamoto, Masayuki and Masako: yb98 150-152
Yamano, Kimiko: kr 97
Yoshida, Keiichi: yb98 92-93
pioneers: yb15 41; yb98 80-81, 104-107; yb95 45; yb94 6; jv 303, 394, 491, 540; yb93 49; w89 1/1 15; w87 2/1 15; w86 5/1 22-24; w86 11/15 22-25
drives in rain to meet cruise ship: yb12 73-75
sister working full-time to support family: yb94 45
special pioneers: yb98 85-87, 89, 91, 93, 96
why so many pioneer: yb98 104-105; w92 1/1 8, 15; w87 2/1 19
Pioneer Service School: yb98 100-101; jv 300
places:
Hiroshima: yb98 70
Kobe: w14 11/15 31; w03 10/1 26; g00 12/22 19; yb98 68, 72, 75-79, 133, 137-138, 142-145
Kyoto: yb98 83-84, 109
Okinawa: yb98 87-92, 129-131, 147-148
Osaka: w14 11/15 31; yb98 69-70, 81-83, 108, 114-117, 134
Tokyo: w14 11/15 31; yb98 67-68, 71-75, 88, 95, 110, 114, 117-118, 131, 134-135, 141, 151, 161
Tsuru: yb98 86
printing: yb05 25, 27; yb98 120-121, 157-158; jv 590, 592; w89 11/1 26; yb87 8-10; g87 4/22 20-21
bookbinding: yb98 123-127, 158
four-color: jv 595
typesetting: yb98 121-123; jv 581
publications:
Bible book The Bible—The Gospel According to Matthew: w15 2/15 3-4
Bible New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures: yb98 108, 125-127; jv 613; km 11/89 3; km 4/88 3; km 6/88 3; yb87 8, 10; g87 9/22 30; km 9/86 3
book “Let God Be True”: yb98 76
books Light, Books One and Two: yb98 76
book The Divine Plan of the Ages: yb98 68
brochure “Look! I Am Making All Things New”: yb88 6
languages: yb01 29; yb98 157-158; jv 394
magazine The Watchtower: w14 11/15 31; w03 10/1 26-27; w88 5/1 25
relief work:
earthquake, tsunami, nuclear disaster (2011): w17.09 11-12; w14 12/15 26; kr 192-193, 212; w12 8/15 16; yb12 21-23; g 12/11 17-20
Kobe earthquake (1995): g01 7/22 8; yb98 142-145; w96 12/1 7; g96 11/8 30; w95 11/1 29; g95 8/22 24, 26-27
Mt. Fugen eruption (Shimabara Peninsula) (1991): yb98 136-137
Mt. Mihara eruption (1986): yb98 135-136; jv 311-312; g87 7/8 7-9
Mt. Usu eruption (2000): w02 3/1 19
typhoons, flood, earthquake (2004): yb06 19-20; w05 11/15 32
resolution to adopt name Jehovah’s Witnesses heard on radio: jv 157; w88 5/1 23
service experiences: yb98 101-104; yb95 45; yb92 47; w91 1/1 17, 22; w91 2/1 6; w91 12/15 7; w90 2/1 31; w90 3/1 26-29; yb90 47; g89 12/22 10-11; w88 5/1 22-23; yb88 43
12-year-old conducts 20 studies: w00 1/15 18
79-year-old sister: yb97 47-48
after earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster (2011): yb12 23
Awake! feature “Was It Designed?”: km 12/13 6
Bible truth helps endure abusive husband: wp19.3 15
bicycle racers accept truth: lff lesson 25; w11 4/1 29-30; w86 5/1 23-24
Buddhists accept truth: w88 6/1 5-6
business territory: w04 4/1 8
businesswoman: w08 8/1 28-29
calls back on everyone: km 12/03 8
children witness: w95 1/1 24
deaf: yb11 7-8
deaf and blind man reached: yb14 59, 61-63
death-row prisoner: yb98 76-77
disillusioned with Christendom’s churches: yb98 80-81
doctors: yb98 74-75
elderly Witness with leg pain: yb08 53
explains stand on Buddhist rituals to employer: w25.03 5-6
gambler: w09 11/1 28-29
girl who had multiple sexual partners: w17.08 18-19
homeless man: w10 8/1 19-20
husbands’ opposition to meetings overcome: w88 4/1 29-30
husbands won over: yb98 98-100; fy 131
inactive youth from cruise ship: yb12 73-75
intercom conversations: yb98 145-146
lawyer’s office: yb06 44
learning Japanese: w23.07 23
letter writing: yb04 56-57
magazine distribution: yb01 52-53; yb96 46-47
marriage saved: w10 8/1 11-12
military bases: yb98 147-148
mute woman in hospital: yb16 61-62
on way to work: yb00 63
press installers: yb05 27
rude person: w09 11/15 27-28
Shinto priest: w11 7/1 12-14; yb98 102-103
street work: yb98 146
telephone witnessing: yb07 43-44; yb98 146-147
unassigned territory: yb98 96
unfriendly neighbors: w05 11/1 14
videos: w99 1/1 19; yb99 51-52
Watchtower article helps man diagnose himself: w01 10/15 32
Witness mother with three children: yb03 48
Witness schoolgirl musters up courage: yb05 54-55
yakuza (Japanese Mafia): yb98 151
youth requests Bible study at missionary home: w95 3/15 24
serving where need is greater:
emigrate from Japan: w18.07 3-6
minority-language field: w17.08 24-25; w94 1/1 16-17
support to other branches: w87 1/1 31
printing and binding: yb01 29; yb98 157-158
translation: yb98 159
traveling overseers: w15 12/15 30-31; yb98 75-76, 80, 92-93, 95, 100, 114-116, 143-145
visits by—
Barber, C.: yb90 33
Barr, J. E.: yb90 33
Barry, W. L.: yb98 82-83, 120; yb90 33
Franz, F. W.: yb98 120
Jaracz, T.: yb01 29
Knorr, N. H.: w03 10/1 26-27; yb98 67, 79; w88 5/1 25
Morris, A.: w15 2/15 3
Russell, C. T.: yb98 68; jv 419-420; w89 11/1 23
World War II: yb98 68-70; jv 455
youths:
feels unworthy: jr 127
refuse kendo training in school: g95 10/8 10-14; g94 10/22 28; g92 5/22 29
wins English speech contest: w04 12/15 32
wins national composition contest: w92 11/1 32