Remember when Japan was held up as the model to follow in terms of zeal in the ministry? They used to regularly set new marks in pioneer hours and numbers. The organization used to browbeat the work of other countries like the U.S. basically implying they were slackers compared to the Japanese. Now I hear none of that talk. Did the internet kill the JW movement in Japan? What really happened?
JAPAN - What happened to the JWs in Japan?
by Black Man 8 Replies latest jw friends
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PaintedToeNail
I remember all those examples and wonder what happened too.
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OnTheWayOut
I don't have the answer, but I know that Japanese love education and they love fads.
Maybe their education taught them better and they moved on to the next fad.
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Black Sheep
Armageddon didn't happen so they joined Aum Shinrikyo to speed things up.
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Gayle
Less publishers there now than since 2005 at least.
Maybe more are checking out the Internet like crazy there.
I think the culture is for men to work many hours for their businesses. So that will not be accepted by the JW culture.
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wobble
I think that the generation that accepted the religion was the one that was close to, or even saw, the slaughter by the A bombs.
Their former religion of the worship of the Emperor was obviously in error, they were ripe for plucking by the WT.
Subsequent generations were not so desperate, Japan's economic miracle was what they grew up with, they were ripe for seeing what the real world was, the advent of the Internet helped too, no doubt.
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Pams girl
Agree with Wobble on this one.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
Like Black Sheep said. The 1995 sarin gas attack by the cult is near the time that the increases ended. I think the Japanese started waking up and watching out for cult thinking.
Or maybe the "generation" redefinition didn't translate well into Japanese.