{"id":1041,"date":"2013-01-17T14:35:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T19:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2013-01-17T14:39:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T19:39:15","slug":"outreach-opportunity-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"Outreach Opportunity in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Yaeko-Yamamoto-from-the-NHK-drama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Yaeko-Yamamoto-from-the-NHK-drama.jpg\" alt=\"Yaeko Yamamoto from the NHK drama\" title=\"Yaeko Yamamoto from the NHK drama\" width=\"304\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Yaeko-Yamamoto-from-the-NHK-drama.jpg 304w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Yaeko-Yamamoto-from-the-NHK-drama-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is the dramatic picture of the actress, but the real Yaeko Yamamoto, fought in the Boshin War (at the end of EDO era) to defend Aizu, became a Christian, and with her brother and husband (Joe Nijima) started the first Christian university (Doshisha) in Kyoto, Japan. Her husband was the first Japanese to receive a degree in America, and became the first Japanese protestant pastor. Yae\u2019s story is now on NHK drama. (NHK is a nation wide public TV station in Japan). Today, at bookstores, we can see a lot of books on Yae. Please pray that God will use this opportunity to open up Japanese\u2019 hearts to Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the dramatic picture of the actress, but the real Yaeko Yamamoto, fought in the Boshin War (at the end of EDO era) to defend Aizu, became a Christian, and with her brother and husband (Joe Nijima) started the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}