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James Curtis Hepburn was one of the earliest missionaries to enter Japan, arriving at Yokohama in 1859. Him and his wife, Clara, were known for offering hospitality to the U.S. Navy and both were prominent Christian teachers. James offered free medical treatment and opened the Yokohama Academy in 1862, and his wife started a school that would later be named the Ferris Seminary. (Several notable figures learned at Hepburn\u2019s Yokohama Academy, like Takahashi Korekiyo and Masuda Takashi). One of his patients was Kishida Ginji (Gink\u014d), businessman and father of famous painter Kishida Ry\u016bsei, who became Hepburn\u2019s assistant and helped with the editing of his Japanese\/English dictionary. Hepburn\u2019s dictionary, the first of its kind, was first published in 1867, and his longtime project of translating the Bible into Japanese was completed in 1887. Hepburn contributed one story to Hasegawa\u2019s Fairy Tale Series, The Old Man and the Devils (1886). Hepburn was close with other missionaries and writers David Thompson and Edward Rothesay Miller, and established the United Church of Japan in 1877. He was also president of Meiji Gakuin University from 1887 to 1892.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_filterable_portfolio fullwidth=”off” include_categories=”13″ _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” title_font=”|600|||||||” title_font_size=”15px” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” hover_icon=”||fa||900″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_filterable_portfolio][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" James Curtis Hepburn was one of the earliest missionaries to enter Japan, arriving at Yokohama in 1859. Him and his wife, Clara, were known for offering hospitality to the U.S. Navy and both were prominent Christian teachers. James offered free medical treatment and opened the Yokohama Academy in 1862, and his wife started a school […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5581,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1764","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1764\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}