The Norwegian-American Lutheran experience in 1950s Japan : stepping up to the Cold War challenge /

This study examines a group of young Norwegian-American missionaries sent to Japan in the early 1950s. Certain that a communist regime would take over and make mission work impossible, as in China, they instead witnessed Japan's economic transformation and were affected by postcolonial ideologi...

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Main Authors: Allen, Kate (Author), Ingulsrud, John E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2016
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