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Since some 70% of the Catholic priests and officers of Japan are foreigners, the church is certain to undergo further restrictions. Catholics, like Protestants, meanwhile paid obeisance at Shinto shrines.
Japanese nationalists look on Christianity less as a religion than as part of the way of life of the U. S. and Britain. And the Japanese are suppressing Christianity with Oriental courtesy. Foreign financial aid, they hinted last week, need not be halted — if foreign mission boards will simply turn the money over to the Japanese for disposal.