Library Guides: HIST 24706: Edo/Tokyo: Society and the City in Japan (Spring 2017): Missionary Records

Periodicals

Many of our sources on missionary activities in Japan date from the 1890s and the founding of the University of Chicago library collection. Some examples of denominational periodicals are listed below.

Archival Sources

Church Missionary Society Records (Japan: 1905-1941)
At the Center for Research Libraries; request reels of microfilm using Interlibrary Loan.
Missionary files Methodist Episcopal Church missionary correspondence, 1846-1912: (China, Japan, Korea).
William P. Woodard papers (1869-1974)
William P. Woodard was a Congregational Christian Churches missionary to Japan from 1921-1941 and 1952-1966, and a scholar on Japanese religions.
12 reels of microfilm.
Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (1833-1911)
Japan, reels 118-132; 276-280 and other reels. Request from Center for Research Libraries using Interlibrary Loan.

Search terms

Missions--Japan
Missionaries -- Japan -- Biography

baptists japan KEYWORDS and 1880-1920 date range limit

Mission Maps

Church Missionary Atlas (1859 and later dates)
Japan and Korea (1923)
A map with "Protestant mission stations underlined in red"