Biography of James Curtis Hepburn Spotlights Contributions to Japan’s Modernization

Yokohama Shiloh Church, which Hepburn helped to establish, as pictured in September 2023. (Photo courtesy Izumi Nobumichi)

Yokohama Shiloh Church is open to visitors every Saturday. (Photo courtesy Izumi Nobumichi)

The writer Izumi Nobumichi’s certificate for perfect attendance at Yokohama Shiloh Church Sunday school as an elementary school student (Christmas 1959).

Hebon-den: Waei jiten, seisho hon’yaku, seiyō igaku no chichi (Biography of James Curtis Hepburn: The Father of the Japanese-English Dictionary, Bible Translation, and Western Medicine)