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Title: Christian teachers on Okinawa.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: #44 CHRISTIAN TEACHERS ON OKINAWA A group of high school teachers, all Christians who teach in the schools established at Shimmabuke, Okinawa [sic. Shimabuku, Okinawa], where Shosei Kina acts as the superintendent. He is one of the original converts to Christianity as a result of a brief visit to the island by a visiting Methodist missionary enroute to Japan. Before his departure, the missionary presented to Shosei a Bible in the Japanese language. This Bible is still being used by him in spreading the Gospel to his followers. Credit Line Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO
Creator Name(s): Hall, Clarence W. (Clarence Wilbur), 1902-1985. (photographer)
Date Created: 1945
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Kina, Shosei.
Topical Subject(s): Women teachers--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Teachers--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Christian educators--Japan--Okinawa-ken.
Geographic subjects: Japan, Okinawa-ken., Japan, Okinawa-ken., Japan, Okinawa-ken., Okinawa-ken (Japan), Asia--Japan--Okinawa Prefecture--Shimabuku
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. 44; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_44
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:357572

Title: Christian Community of Okinawa.
Description: Alternate caption.
Creator Name(s): Hall, Clarence W. (Clarence Wilbur), 1902-1985. (author)
Date Created: 1945
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Hillyer, Roy N., United States. Army. Armored Division, 10th., Kina, Mojon., Kina, Shosei., Higa, Tarō, 1916-1985.
Topical Subject(s): Methodist converts--Japan--Okinawa-ken., School superintendents--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Military chaplains--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Christian leadership--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Christian educators--Japan--Okinawa-ken., World War, 1939-1945--Chaplains.
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. 43; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_43_01
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:357502

Title: Christian Community of Okinawa.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: #43 CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OF OKINAWA Chaplain Roy N. Hillyer, senior chaplain of the Tenth Army on Okinawa (seated at center of table) with leaders of the Christian community at Shimmabuke, Okinawa [sic. Shimabuku, Okinawa]. The two men at the right of the table were originally converted by a Methodist missionary who spent a short time on the island, thirty years ago, while enroute to Japan. They are Mojon and Shosei Kina, brothers. Seated at the left is Corporal Tom Higa, a native of Shimmabuke [sic. Shimabuku], who had gone to school in Honolulu, and there enlisted in the U.S. Army. Shosei is superintendent of the school system. Both he and his brother have been preaching the Gospel from the Bible in the Japanese language left with them by the missionary, thirty years ago. Credit Line Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO
Creator Name(s): Hall, Clarence W. (Clarence Wilbur), 1902-1985. (photographer)
Date Created: 1945
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Hillyer, Roy N., United States. Army. Armored Division, 10th., Kina, Mojon., Kina, Shosei., Higa, Tarō, 1916-1985.
Topical Subject(s): Methodist converts--Japan--Okinawa-ken., School superintendents--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Military chaplains--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Christian leadership--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Christian educators--Japan--Okinawa-ken., World War, 1939-1945--Chaplains.
Geographic subjects: Japan, Okinawa-ken., Japan, Okinawa-ken., Japan, Okinawa-ken., Japan, Okinawa-ken., Japan, Okinawa-ken., Okinawa-ken (Japan), Asia--Japan--Okinawa Prefecture--Shimabuku
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. 43; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_43
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:357566

Title: Captions for two pictures to Religious News Service.
Description: Alternate caption.
Creator Name(s): Hall, Clarence W. (Clarence Wilbur), 1902-1985. (author)
Date Created: 1945
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Hillyer, Roy N., United States. Army. Armored Division, 10th., Kina, Mojon., Kina, Shosei., Higa, Tarō, 1916-1985.
Topical Subject(s): Methodist converts--Japan--Okinawa-ken., School superintendents--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Military chaplains--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Christian leadership--Japan--Okinawa-ken., Christian educators--Japan--Okinawa-ken., World War, 1939-1945--Chaplains.
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. 43; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_43_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:357524

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