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Japan

Languages: Japanese

Religions: Up to 84% of Japanese claim no personal religion. Shinto and Buddhism predominate, with people practicing more than one religion; less than 1% Christian

Ethnic groups: Japanese, Ainu, Korean-Japanese, other

Location: The archipelago has four main islands and about 4,000 smaller ones off the coasts of Korea and the Russian Federation

Size: 145,870 square miles, 377,657 square kilometers, or about the size of Montana

Population: 126,772,000 (2001 est.)

Davidson, Dwight and Kari Davidson Dwight and Kari

Kari and Dwight Davidson serve the Lord in Yokohama, Japan. Dwight serves as missionary chaplain at Kanto Gakuin University, a school related to the Japan Baptist Union (JBU). The vast majority of students and many faculty members at the university are non-Christian.

Kari ministers to young mothers and children in the Yokohama community. An outreach to Japanese women who have school-age children is greatly needed. Most Japanese women stay at home while their children are studying, so there are many opportunities for friendship evangelism and community building.

Both Dwight and Kari also serve in education and evangelism through Japan Baptist Union churches.