Traditional customs of respectful dialogue and graceful hospitality - and a clear spirit of mutual appreciation and renewed friendship - were central as Japan's Anglican leaders welcomed Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold
25 October 2005
The Peace of our Lord be with you all. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. In this important year, we wish to express our concerns about the recent situation in Japan, and also to express our determined desire for world peace.
15 August 2005
We - the Bishop of Tokyo and his accompanying 11 members - visited the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem for 10 days from 3 February, 2004. The Council of Justice and Peace under the diocese of Tokyo, which worked on this visit programme, wanted to make it clear that the primary purpose of this visit was an attempt to share the mission and ministries of the Churches and Christians who seek justice and peace in this particular region, as the root causes of major conflicts of the present world seem to emanate from here.
26 March 2004
The Bishop of Kyushu in Japan invites all Anglicans to commemorate in prayer the victims of nuclear weapons, and pray for the peace of the world.
15 July 2003
It is a very critical moment now for the entire world in regards to whether to go to war or maintain peace over the Iraq Issue. I would like to make my position clear on this matter to my brothers and sisters in Christ, and I ask each one of you to pray for peace so that war may be avoided.
11 March 2003
Jesus always lived with the least and oppressed, but never resorted to force to liberate them. Jesus has shown us love instead of power, sympathy with pain and wail instead of pity, and sharing instead of charity.
13 November 2001
The Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion (CUAC) will be holding its next Triennial Meeting in Tokyo from March 15-18 in Tokyo at Rikkyo (St. Paul's) University, an Anglican university that is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Japan.
10 October 2001
On behalf of Christian world in Japan, we request that you not pay an official visit to the Religious Corporate, Yasukuni Shrine on August 15. Yasukuni Shrine was protected by the nation as State Shinto until the end of the Asia Pacific War and served as the spiritual foundation for the Emperor's military forces sent to invade the countries in Asia and Pacific.
21 August 2001
This year as every year we at Holy Trinity Nagasaki will be remembering the victims of the atomic bombing which took place on August 9th 1945. 70,000 people in the city lost their lives in the explosion, including 29 members of this church. In the following days and years many times that number died as a result of injury or radiation-related disease, and deaths directly attributed to the bombing still occur.
10 August 2001
NSKK has tackled with the Revisionist Textbook; NSKK has sent the petition to the Authority to retract the resolution of the Revisionist Textbook and sent following letter to all of its parish churches and related institutions.
01 May 2001