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Religious education and Latter-day Saint proselyting in late Meiji Japan

As The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sought to establish itself in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) it did so at a time of pronounced change in Japanese society. The Meiji Restoration, which began in 1868, was an ongoing movement to strengthen Japan and to open the country up to the global community. The fear was that failing to seize the initiativ…