Course Schedule and Submission Deadlines

Please have your weekly reading and writing assignments completed by Saturday night.

It is important that you keep up with your course assignments as other students are expected to read and post comments on what you have written each week. If you do not submit your writing assignments, they may not be able to complete their weekly assignments.

We ask that you complete your work by Saturday night to take Sundays off as a rest day and resume with the new week's material on Monday.

If you find yourself falling behind in the course work. Don't stay weeks behind the rest of the class. Leave off where you were at and jump up to the current week to stay current with the rest of the students. You can always go back later and fill in the pieces that you missed. But, in our experience, when people get and stay too far behind, they drop out and miss the benefits of why they registered for this course in the first place.

Japan 101 - Introduction to the Japanese

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  • READ FIRST - Additional Resources Needed for This Course
  • Course Schedule and Submission Deadlines
  • Please Introduce Yourself22
  • Vote on time for first class zoom call1

Week 1 - Part 1 -Japanese History

  • Japan 101 Introductory Video
  • Reading: Understanding Japanese Society
  • Reading: Understanding Japan
  • Writing 112
  • Optional Japanese History Video

Week 1 - Part 2 - History of Christianity in Japan

  • Japan 101 Video 24
  • Reading 1 - The Rise and Struggle of Christianity in Japan - (14pgs)3
  • Reading 2 - General Told of Barring Offer to Create a Christian Japan - (3pgs)2
  • Reading 2 - Christ and the Remaking of the Orient - (8pgs)
  • Writing 111
  • Writing 2
  • Pray2
  • First Class Zoom Call - Saturday Sept 26th at 11am Pacific Time1
  • Reading 3 - "optional extra"
  • GMT20260926-180757_Recording_1920x1200.mp41

Week 2 - Japanese Society - Family Life

  • Reading - Understanding Japan
  • Japan 101 Video 3
  • Interview A Japanese Person2
  • Writing 110
  • Writing 2
  • Pray3
  • Optional Reading: Understanding Japanese Society1

Week 3 - Japanese Society - Community Life

  • Reading - Understanding Japanese Society
  • Reading - Understanding Japan
  • Watch: Hikikomori3
  • Watch: Japan's Hidden Homelessness
  • Writing 16
  • Writing 2
  • Pray2
  • Class Discussion Mid-Term: Saturday October 10 @ 11am Pacific Time4
  • Optional Readings
  • Recording of conversation with Naoko and Kanako1

Week 4 - Religion in Japan

  • Japan 101 Video 4
  • A little background on Buddhism and Shinto
  • Reading: Understanding Japanese Society
  • Reading - Understanding Japan
  • Watch: What Japanese Think of Religions
  • Watch: Being a Christian in Japan
  • Read: Cultural Barriers to the Gospel
  • Vote on our next class discussion call time
  • Writing 18
  • Writing 2
  • Pray1
  • Visit a Japanese Church5

Week 5 - Japanese Culture and Christian Faith

  • Japan 101 Video 5
  • Reading - Understanding Japan
  • Watch: The Japanese Art of Harmony
  • Watch: Japanese Culture 101: Why Japanese and Americans Seem Rude to each Other
  • Reading 2 - (15pgs)
  • Watch: What Being a Christian is Like in Japan
  • Writing 1 - Contextualization1
  • Writing 2
  • Pray1
  • Vote on Final Class Call Time

Week 6 - Conclusions and Analysis

  • Reading 1 - (11pgs)
  • Reading 2 - (14pgs)
  • Interview 1
  • Interview 2
  • Writing 1
  • Pray
  • Writing 2
  • Final Class Call - TBD

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