THE JAPAN MISSION JOURNAL
SPRING 2006 VOL. 60, NO.1
CONTENTS

Donald Richie	Some Notes on Life and Death in the Japanese Film
Paul McCarthy	The Life and Death of Christ on Screen
Interview	Facing Death and Proclaiming Life in the Japanese Church 　　　　　　　An Interview with Fathers Haresaku Masahide and Leo Schumacher
Kotani Midori	Posthumous Life Partnership: A Thing of the Past?
Terao Kazuyoshi	New Buddhist Ideas for Life after Retirement
Bruce Duncan	Did the 2005 Synod Duck Issues of Hunger and Poverty?
Joseph S. O’Leary	Love Conquers All An Encyclical and Its Intertexts
John T. Brinkman	Lessons from the Montreal Climate Change Conference

THE JAPAN MISSION JOURNAL
SUMMER 2006 VOL. 60, NO.2
CONTENTS

Shimazono Susumu	The Vitalistic View of Life and Death in Japanese New Religions
William Johnston	Has Mysticism a Future?
Masakawa Nobuo	"Mujina"-The Demon that Drives Souls into Society's Trash Dump
William Gater	Life in the Age of the Clone: Reading Houellebecq
John J. Puthenkalam	Celebrating the Cycle of Life and Death in India
Lazar Stanislaus	Healing as Mission
Paul Surlis	Torture: Integral to U.S. Foreign Policy or Aberration in Iraq?

THE JAPAN MISSION JOURNAL
AUTUMN 2006 VOL. 60, NO.3
CONTENTS

David Burleigh	Life and Death in Bashō
Peter Milward	The Blessings of Old Age
John Scally	Is Our Future in Our Past?
Toyama Takashi	Providence and Harmony With Nature In the Ryukyu Islands
Ruben L. F. Habito	A Zen Kan on Facing Death
Tajima Masaki	Trust, the Cement of Community
Paul McCartin	Patenting Life
Antonius Harnoko	The Children of the Tsunami
Kwok Pui-lan	Theology and the Church from a Postcolonial Perspective

THE JAPAN MISSION JOURNAL
WINTER 2006 VOL. 60, NO.4
CONTENTS

Kathleen Reiley	And a Little Child Shall Lead Them
Bruce Duncan	Population and the Church in the Context of Global Warming
Hubert Durt	On Gratitude in Japanese Buddhism
Peter Baekelmans	The Ideal Life According to Shingon Buddhism
Kenneth K. Tanaka	The Contemporary Meaning of Amida Buddha and Pure Land
James P. Mackey	To Judge the Living and the Dead
Book Review	Mother Teresa: A Saint from Skopje
Trends and Events	Statistics of the Church in Japan 2005
	Index of Articles and Authors 2006

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