{"id":863,"date":"2018-12-08T22:27:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T13:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlc.or.jp\/urawa\/?page_id=863"},"modified":"2025-10-07T15:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:17:18","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/jlc.or.jp\/urawa\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1836 \" src=\"http:\/\/jlc.or.jp\/urawa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6f4c29336a3fbbb12686641a42130065.jpg\" alt=\"\u793c\u62dd\u5802\" width=\"319\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jlc.or.jp\/urawa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6f4c29336a3fbbb12686641a42130065.jpg 1937w, http:\/\/jlc.or.jp\/urawa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6f4c29336a3fbbb12686641a42130065-273x300.jpg 273w, http:\/\/jlc.or.jp\/urawa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6f4c29336a3fbbb12686641a42130065-931x1024.jpg 931w, http:\/\/jlc.or.jp\/urawa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6f4c29336a3fbbb12686641a42130065-768x845.jpg 768w, http:\/\/jlc.or.jp\/urawa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6f4c29336a3fbbb12686641a42130065-1396x1536.jpg 1396w, http:\/\/jlc.or.jp\/urawa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6f4c29336a3fbbb12686641a42130065-1862x2048.jpg 1862w, http:\/\/jlc.or.jp\/urawa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6f4c29336a3fbbb12686641a42130065-1200x1320.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 85vw, 319px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Urawa Lutheran Church is one of the 35 churches of Japan Lutheran Churche, it&#8217;s called<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jlc.or.jp\/english\/\"> Nihon Ruteru Kyodan &#8211; NRK<\/a> in Japanese.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The NRK was founded when Dr. William Danker was officially installed as the first missionary to Japan from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lcms.org\/\">the Lutheran Church &#8211; Missouri Synod<\/a>. A special service was held at the Tokyo Chapel Center of the American Army in Kasumigaseki, Tokyo on September 19, 1948.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 1953 the NRK was officially recognized as a religious body in Japan.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Urawa Lutheran Church is one of the 35 churches of Japan Lutheran Churche, it&#8217;s called Nihon Rute &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jlc.or.jp\/urawa\/about-us\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;About Us&#8221; \u306e<\/span>\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-863","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jlc.or.jp\/urawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jlc.or.jp\/urawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jlc.or.jp\/urawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jlc.or.jp\/urawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jlc.or.jp\/urawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/jlc.or.jp\/urawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1841,"href":"http:\/\/jlc.or.jp\/urawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/863\/revisions\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jlc.or.jp\/urawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}