26 Facts About Juji Nakada

Juji Nakada was a Japanese holiness evangelist, known as "the Dwight Moody of Japan", who was the first bishop of the Japan Holiness Church and one of the co-founders of the Oriental Missionary Society.

Juji Nakada subsequently served in Otaru, Etorofu island, and Odate in Akita Prefecture.

On 20 March 1911, Juji Nakada's wife died, leaving his only son, Ugo.

Ten days later, on 24 September 1939, Juji Nakada died of intestinal tuberculosis at the age of 68.

Juji Nakada was influenced by the writings of John Wesley ; an association with JR Boynton, a Chicago physician who practised faith healing; and Martin Wells Knapp, who later founded God's Bible School in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1901.

In September 1898 Juji Nakada returned to Japan after meeting Barclay Fowell Buxton, leaders of the English holiness movement in England.

In 1899 Juji Nakada was appointed a traveling evangelist in the Methodist church, although he preached beyond that denomination.

Juji Nakada was supported financially by the Cowmans and Kilbournes, who have formed the Telegraphers Missions Band in Chicago.

In 1900 Juji Nakada left the Methodist church and founded the Central Gospel Mission in Jinbo-cho in central Tokyo.

Juji Nakada secured permission from the Japanese government to minister to Japanese troops fighting in Manchuria.

Providentially, they met a Korean doctor who knew Juji Nakada and had visited the OMS Bible Training Institute in Tokyo.

Juji Nakada left Korea to serve as chaplain in Manchuria until the end of the Russo-Japanese War.

Juji Nakada returned to Cincinnati in June 1907 to preach during another ten-day holiness convention.

In October 1920, Juji Nakada toured the United States, preaching at several Japanese churches in Los Angeles.

Juji Nakada returned in 1929 to dedicate the church building on 13 October.

In 1920, Juji Nakada held meetings at Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky.

In 1929 Juji Nakada visited the Japan Holiness Church of Brazil, which had been established by Takeo Monobe, a missionary from the Japan Holiness Church, in July 1925 primarily among Japanese immigrants Arriving in May 1929, Juji Nakada spent five weeks in Brazil preaching and strengthening the church, which was a district of his denomination until its independence in 1934, when it became the Evangelical Holiness Church of Brazil.

Juji Nakada fired five of the teachers at his training institute for refusing to teach his beliefs, and they responded by accusing him of fascism.

Juji Nakada's wife died on 14 September 1939 of uterine cancer.

Juji Nakada died ten days later, on 24 September 1939, of intestinal tuberculosis.

Juji Nakada was deeply influenced by American evangelist and Christian Zionist William Eugene Blackstone's 1878 book Jesus is Coming, one of the first popular books to advocate the literal premillennial return of Jesus Christ to restore Israel.

Juji Nakada first preached about Israel's restoration at a 1931 camp meeting on Japan's northern coast at Matsushima.

Juji Nakada wrote, 'We should not read books that defame the Jewish people nor should we despise and ostracize them.

Juji Nakada was influenced in his thinking by the writings of Nicholas McLeod:.

Juji Nakada described what he thought to be proofs of the origin of the Japanese people from the Ten Lost Tribes.

Juji Nakada endeavored in an elaborate way to reconstruct and explain the ancient Japanese history according to his interpretation of the Bible and its sacred history.