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Missionary Drummond finds that Japanese historians are only just beginning to discover the social, scientific and religious benefits Japan has received from its stubborn Christian remnant. "The story of missions in Japan is the story of a hostile government and an obediently hostile society being changed almost against its will ... It is the story of Japanese men and women who have braved social obloquy and personal danger ... of people who have endured against pressures almost inconceivable to men in the West. I salute the Japanese Christian, Catholic or Protestant. The perspective of centuries shows him to be not the villain but the hero of Japanese history."
† C. M. Williams and J. Liggens of the Protes tant Episcopal Church of America. S. R. Brown and D. B. Simmons of the Dutch Reformed Church in America, and J. C. Hepburn of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
*Site of Christianity's first foothold in Japan and victim of the second atomic bomb dropped by the U.S.