Spiritual Darkness & Need of Japan
Over the years I’ve learned that the Japanese are an AMAZING people – industrious, dependable, engineering geniuses; they are steadfast friends; respectful and kind.
All of this is so much so that you might be tempted to ask, “Do they really need the
Gospel?”
But if you can look beyond the high technology, the smiles and politeness, you will
see a nation so DESPERATELY LOST WITHOUT CHRIST.
They are a nation spiritually lost. They worship 8 million gods, but so few know the ONE TRUE GOD. The Protestant population is 0.2% There are 183,000 cult groups in Japan.
They are a nation that is also sexually lost.
The historical legacy of the so‐called “comfort women” that I mentioned before
is today continued as there are 150,000 Filipino and Thai women who are being exploited in the Japanese sex industry having been lured by so‐called, “entertainment” jobs.
And they are a nation that is also relationally lost.
There is a phenomenon known as “hikikomori” where people refuse to work or
participate at all in normal life. They sleep all day and if they venture out at all,
it’s at night to their local convenience store to pick up some cup of noodles and some pornography. There are today in Japan more than 1 million young men who are hikikomori.
Young girls in Japan are so desperately seeking fatherly attention that many have turned even to teenage prostitution. Having a dirty old man touch you and pay you doesn’t seem to me like a fair substitute for a father’s love. One study says that upwards of 9% of high school girls and even upwards of 4% of JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS report having participated in such prostitution.
The Japanese need the Lord and our love as well. So the Lord called me, my family, and our team to love the Japanese people.
- Michael Oh, Founder/President of CBI, Nagoya, Japan
All of this is so much so that you might be tempted to ask, “Do they really need the
Gospel?”
But if you can look beyond the high technology, the smiles and politeness, you will
see a nation so DESPERATELY LOST WITHOUT CHRIST.
They are a nation spiritually lost. They worship 8 million gods, but so few know the ONE TRUE GOD. The Protestant population is 0.2% There are 183,000 cult groups in Japan.
They are a nation that is also sexually lost.
The historical legacy of the so‐called “comfort women” that I mentioned before
is today continued as there are 150,000 Filipino and Thai women who are being exploited in the Japanese sex industry having been lured by so‐called, “entertainment” jobs.
And they are a nation that is also relationally lost.
There is a phenomenon known as “hikikomori” where people refuse to work or
participate at all in normal life. They sleep all day and if they venture out at all,
it’s at night to their local convenience store to pick up some cup of noodles and some pornography. There are today in Japan more than 1 million young men who are hikikomori.
Young girls in Japan are so desperately seeking fatherly attention that many have turned even to teenage prostitution. Having a dirty old man touch you and pay you doesn’t seem to me like a fair substitute for a father’s love. One study says that upwards of 9% of high school girls and even upwards of 4% of JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS report having participated in such prostitution.
The Japanese need the Lord and our love as well. So the Lord called me, my family, and our team to love the Japanese people.
- Michael Oh, Founder/President of CBI, Nagoya, Japan
