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Accuphase was founded by former Kenwood engineer Jiro Kasuga in late 1972. [1] Kasuga was not happy with the views of Kenwood relating to the follower of their High-End Supreme 1 unit (1967). He hired some engineers from other prominent brands (Marantz, Luxman) and started Kensonic, with Kenwood as a part owner. Some other connections in the ...
The Church of the Light consists of three 5.9m concrete cubes (5.9 m wide × 17.7 m long × 5.9 m high) penetrated by a wall angled at 15°, dividing the cube into the chapel and the entrance area. One indirectly enters the church by slipping between the two volumes, one that contains the Sunday school and the other that contains the worship hall.
The Japanese word for Christianity (キリスト教, Kirisuto-kyō) is a compound of kirisuto (キリスト) the Japanese adaptation of the Portuguese word for Christ, Cristo, and the Sino-Japanese word for doctrine (敎, kyō, a teaching or precept, from Middle Chinese kæ̀w 敎), as in Bukkyō (仏教, Japanese for Buddhism). [11]
Jiro Horikoshi (二郎, 1903–1982), chief engineer behind many Japanese fighters of WWII; Jiro Hosotani (細谷 治朗, born 1950), Japanese weightlifter; Jiro Kamiharako (次郎, born 1966), Japanese ski jumper; Jiro Kikkawa (1929–2016), Japanese Australian ornithologist; Jiro Manio (born 1992), Filipino actor; Jiro Nakano (二郎, 1902 ...
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan is the Japanese episcopal conference, which serves as the main decision-making body of the Church in Japan. The current President of the CBCJ is Isao Kikuchi. [8] The Catholic Church in Japan is divided into three ecclesiastical provinces with a total of 15 dioceses, three of which are metropolitan ...
Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region (Japanese: 長崎と天草地方の潜伏キリシタン関連遺産) is a group of twelve sites in Nagasaki Prefecture and Kumamoto Prefecture relating to the history of Christianity in Japan.
Japan, one of the most earthquake-prone nations on earth, issued its first-ever “megaquake advisory” last week after a powerful quake struck off the southeastern coast of the southern main ...
Lifehouse International Church Tokyo. Lifehouse was founded in 2002 by Rod Plummer and his wife Viv in Tokyo, Japan, with a team of 16 people. [1] They have been involved in international missions and planted churches in Thailand and Indonesia before returning to pastor an undisclosed Australian Christian Churches affiliated church in Toowoomba Queensland for 7 years.