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 JAPAN 
 
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 What is the Japanese Young Women’s 
 Christian Association ? 
 
 Its Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan 
 Its Committees Largely Japanese 
 Its Membership Japanese 
 Its Plan of Work Japanese 
 
 National Board of Young Womens Christian Assodationt 
 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City 
 September, 1914 
 
JAPAN 
 
 QThe Japanese Young Women’s Christian Asso- 
 ciation is almost ten years old. Its influence reaches 
 throughout Japan. Tens of thousands of women stu- 
 dents throng the educational institutions of this Gate- 
 way Empire of the East. 
 
 ^ The Young Women’s Christian Association pro- 
 vides for the students in Tokyo, — the one city where 
 it is ready for work — Bible classes and hostels. The 
 hostels are not only a safeguard to the student women, 
 but each year numbers of the students are won to 
 the allegiance of Christ. 
 
 qThe government of Japan employs thousands of 
 women in the postal and telegraph offices, and the hos- 
 pitals have under training thousands of nurses. These 
 women, to whom modem life is an all-absorbing and 
 strenuous experiment, respond eagerly to the efforts of 
 the Association in opening to them a higher life. 
 
 qThe factories of Japaui have gathered in more than 
 half a million women from the picturesque country- 
 side to a hard day of fifteen hours of unremitting la- 
 bor, and to nights spent wdthin the dormitories on the 
 factory grounds. For these the Association has made 
 a beginning of work. 
 
 ^ The excellent system of railways exists because the 
 Japanese people travel constantly. In Tokyo and 
 Yokohama there is provided Traveler’s Aid work, 
 which service to the community constantly grows. 
 
^ In the congested sections of Tokyo, neighborhood 
 classes and kindergarten work are already under way, 
 thus affording an outlet to Japanese young women for 
 Christian activity. 
 
 ^ Business girls in Y okohama have organized a branch 
 with rest rooms and club rooms; a Japanese secretary 
 is in charge. 
 
 ^ The Association homes, both national and local, are 
 the centers for Bible classes, socials and community 
 meetings. Some of the most influential men of Japan 
 — pastors, business men, government officials — are 
 warm in their support of the organization. 
 
 Q Osaka, Kyoto and Sendai, the leading cities of the 
 Empire, are asking for secretaries. Japan has four 
 American, two Canadian, and one British secretary. 
 Four secretaries and a building for Tokyo are urg- 
 ently required during the present year.