Juji Nakada - Sources and Further Reading

Sources and Further Reading

• Bays, Daniel H. "Juji Nakada" in Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, 486. Edited by Gerald H. Anderson. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999.
• Bundy, David. "OMS International", 711. In Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions. Edited by A. Scott Moreau. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2000.
• Cho, Chongnahm. "Theological Roots and Emphasis of the OMS-Holiness Church." Online: Focuses on Korean Holiness church.
• Choi, Meesaeng Lee. "Scriptural Holiness and Eschatology as a Vision of the New Creation: From the Story of Sang-Jun Kim and Juji Nakada". Journal of Sungkyul (Holiness) Theology 1 : 322–44.
• Cowman, Lettie B. Charles E. Cowman: Missionary, Warrior. Oriental Missionary Society, 1928. The life of Charles Cowman, one of the founders of the Oriental Missionary Society (present-day OMS International). As a telegraph operator in Chicago, Charles led 75 of his co-workers to Christ within six months of his own conversion. After forming the Telegraph's Mission Band, Charles and wife, Lettie, arrived in Japan on February 1, 1901, to work with Juji Nakada in evangelisation, church planting, and training. Online edition:
• Cunningham, Floyd T. "Mission Policy and National Leadership in the Church of the Nazarene: Japan, 1905-1965." Wesleyan Theological Journal 28. Online: References Nakada's relationship with the Church of the Nazarene and other holiness groups in Japan.
• Dicker, Herman. Wanderers and Settlers in the Far East: A Century of Jewish Life in China and Japan. Twayne Publishers, 1962. Pages 58-60 focus on Nakada's support for the Jews: "Nakada had fought hard for the equality of races and been a staunch battler against anti-Semitism."(59)
• Duewel, Wesley L. Heroes of the Holy Life. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2002. References Nakada and his connection with Oswald Chambers.
• Edwards, Fred E. The Role of the Faith Mission: A Brazilian Case Study. South Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1971. See pages 80-81 for role of Nakada in establishment of Holiness Church in Brazil.
• Engel, Tamar. "The Jews of Kobe". (Summer 1995) Members of Nakada's Holiness Church assisted the Jewish refugees of Kobe. They prayed for them also.
• Erny, Edward and Esther Erny. No Guarantee but God: The Story of the Founders of OMS International. Greenwood, IN: Oriental Missionary Society, 1969.
• Goodman, David G. and Masanori Miyazawa. Jews in the Japanese Mind: The History and Uses of a Cultural Stereotype. New York: The Free Press, 1995.
• Hebert, David G. (2008). Music Transculturation and Identity in a Maori Brass Band Tradition. In R. Camus & B. Habla, Eds. Alta Musica, 26. Tutzing: Schneider, pp.173-200. Discusses "some musical implications of the historical relations between Maori prophet Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana (1873-1939) and Japanese Rev. Juji Nakada (1870-1939), as reflected in contemporary brass bands and liturgical practices."
• Katō, Tsuneaki (加藤常昭). 中田重治 = . 日本キリスト教団出版局, Tōkyō : Nihon Kirisutokyōdan Shuppankyoku, 2003.
• Kilbourne, Edwin W. Bridge Across the Century. Volume I: Japan, Korea, China. Greenwood, IN: OMS, 2001. A narrative history, 100 years of OMS in Asia 1901-2001.
• Kim, Sung Ho. History of the Korea Evangelical Holiness Church. Edited by the History Compilation Committee of the Korea Evangelical Holiness Church. Translated by Chun-Hoi Heo and Hye-Kyung Heo (Seoul: Living Waters, 1998). Review in Wesleyan Theological Journal 35:2 (Fall 2000):251 by David Bundy. Discusses role of Nakada in formation of the Korean Holiness church.
• Koga, Sumio. A Centennial Legacy: History of the Japanese Christian Missions in North America 1877-1977; Volume I. Nobart, 1977. Page 120 for an account of Nakada's visit to Los Angeles in May 1920, and 160 for the Japan Holiness Church in San Lorenzo, California and Nakada's role in starting it.
• Koschmann, J. Victor. Review of "Jews in the Japanese Mind: The History and Uses of a Cultural Stereotype by David G. Goodman and Masanori Miyazawa". Journal of Japanese Studies 23:2 (Summer 1997):463-467.
• Kraar, Louis. Japan's Bizarre Jewish Thing: A Fresh Look at Japanese Exceptionalism." Fortune (20 March 1995). Mentions Nakada's beliefs.
• Lee, Kun Sam. The Christian Confrontation with Shinto Nationalism: A Historical and Critical Study of the Conflict of Christianity and Shinto in Japan in the period. (Philosophical and Historical Studies). Presbyterian & Reformed, 1962. References Nakada's Second Advent Movement (130) and prosecution of Holiness Church ministers for their position on Shinto (159ff).
• McCasland, David. Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God: The Life Story of the Author of My Utmost for His Highest.
• McGavran, Donald, ed. Church Growth Bulletin: Second Consolidated Volume, September 1969 to July 1975. Bulletin of the Institute of Church Growth, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. South Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, . See page 197 for a good summary of the revivals in the Holiness Church of Japan and Nakada's assessment of the results.
• Marciel, Doris and the Hayward Area Historical Society. San Lorenzo: Images of America. Arcadia Publishing, 206. See page 31 for photo of Nakada at the dedication of the church building of the Japan Holiness Church in San Lorenzo, California in 1929.
• Merwin, John Jennings. "The Oriental Missionary Society Holiness Church in Japan, 1901-1983". Unpublished D.Miss. thesis. Fuller Theological Seminary, 1983.
• Merwin, John Jennings. The Oriental Missionary Society Holiness Church in Japan, 1901-1983. Ann Arbor, MI : University Microfilms International, 1990.
• Minagawa, John H. "Preface to Japanese Missionology (7): Christianity that came to Japan Continuation of Arrival of Euro-American Christianity (1) 1859 ~ 1945." Intercessors for Japan Newsletter (20 September 2003).
• Mizuki, John. The Growth of Japanese Churches in Brazil. South Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1978. See pages 56-71 for account of the formation of the Evangelical Holiness Church of Brazil and Nakada's role.
• Mullins, Mark R. Christianity Made in Japan: A Study of Indigenous Movements. Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1998.
• Mullins, Mark R. "Ideology and Utopianism in Wartime Japan: An Essay on the Subversiveness of Christian Eschatology." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 21:2/3 (1994):261-280. Discusses Holiness Church of Japan's relationship to Japanese state during World War II. Online:
• Oliver, Revilo P. "The Yellow Peril." 1983. Revilo P. Oliver was an ulta-conservative. Disparaging critique of McLeod's theory that Japan was descended from the lost tribes of Israel. He adds: "I gather that the hariolations of Professors Fujisawa and Anasaki inspired the foundation of a Holiness Church, of which the Bishop, Juju Nakada, proclaims that "it is God's will that these two nations be united after 3,000 years."
• Randall, Ian M. "The Pentecostal League of Prayer: A Transdenominational British Wesleyan-Holiness Movement." Wesleyan Theological Journal 33:1. Online: References relationship between Nakada and Oswald Chambers.
• Sherrill, Michael J. "Nakada Juji (1870-1939)." In The New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, ed. Robert Benedetto. Princeton, NJ: Westminster John Knox Press.
• Stalker, Charles H. Twice Around the World with the Holy Ghost: Or, The Impressions and Convictions of the Mission Field. Columbus, OH: Charles H. Stalker, 1906. Many B&W photographs of missionary activity in India, China, Japan, and elsewhere. A Quaker evangelist travelling through England, France, Palestine, India, China and Japan. Involved with Nakada.
• Stark, Gilbert Little. Letters of Gilbert Little Stark, July 23, 1907-March 12, 1908. Cambridge: Riverside Press, Gilbert Little Stark, 1908; Cornell University Library. Online edition: Records Little's journey across the Pacific with Nakada in July 1907 and subsequent encounters with him in Japan. See pages 28-29 for description of Nakada as "the Moody of Japan" and a "pocket dynamo" and ability to change clothing to suit preaching occasion. See pages 481-485 for Stark's impressions of Nakada and details of Nakada's life and ministry.
• Thomas, Paul Westphal. The Days of Our Pilgrimage: The History of the Pilgrim Holiness Church. Marion, IN: Wesley Press, 1976. See Chapter on the Cowmans in Japan for beginnings of the OMS in Japan and role of Nakada. Cowmans and Kilbournes were Pilgrim Holiness members. See page 27 for photo of Charles H Stalker, 37 for photo of the Cowmans, 39 for photo of the Kilbournes.
• Wood, Robert D. In These Mortal Hands: The Story of the Oriental Missionary Society: The First Fifty Years. 1983. Traces OMS mission during its first 50 years.
• Yamamori, Tetsunao. Church Growth in Japan: A Study in the Development of the Eight Denominations. South Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1974.
• Yoneda, Isamu (米田勇). 中田重治伝: 伝記中田重治"= . Tokyo: Nakada Jyuji Den Kenko Kai, 1959. 大空社, Tōkyō : Ōzorasha, 1996.
• Yoneda, Yutaka and Takayama Keiki. Showa no Shukyo Dan'atsu. Tokyo: Word of Life Press, 1964. Details the persecution of the Japan Holiness Church in World War II.