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January

Guest	OA Date	Prog.	Description
	Week 1	#872	"Putting Church and School Together, Part 1" -- Masahiro & Kuniko Kina    In this week's program, we pay a visit to the World Mission Christian School in Okinawa. The church operates the school, and their 120 students (elementary to high school levels) study together in a partitioned second-floor room. Their distinctives are character development based on the Bible and English-language instruction, and they are garnering public attention as a pioneer in Japan's fledgling Church-school Movement. We talk about all this with Rev. and Mrs. Kina, who serve, respectively, as  church pastor and school administrator of the facility.
	Week 2	#873	"Putting Church and School Together, Part 2"   To continue last week's program, we bring you more on one of Okinawa's church-school programs. In this edition, we follow around some of their students for a day and, because they seem so excited about learning, get them to tell us what they think about church-school life. We also talk with a former public school teacher who quit her job and came to work at this school.
	Week 3	#874	"Gospel Choir Contest: 2002 Grand Prix"   This week, we bring you a look at the Gospel Choir Contest finals held at Tokyo's Nakano Sun Plaza last November 30th. The event featured eight groups that had previously qualified in regional contests and who came to the finals to sing their hearts out. Black Gospel singer Vernessa Mitchell was the invited guest and gave a powerful performance on stage, as well as a warm interview to us. As a bona fide professional singer, she has the distinction of having performed at former president Bill Clinton's Inaugural Ball, but also gives her time and energy to helping young people get a healthy upbringing. She talks with us in this program about her own perspective on life.
	Week 4	#875	"Christian World News #2"   This is the second program in our new series on news reports from around the  world, courtesy of the  Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) in the United States. In this program, we bring you stories about the work of some professional Christian soccer players, a Christian couple that adopted two young men from Afghanistan, and a segment on some of the hardships that missionaries in the world face.

February

Guest	OA Date	Prog.	Description
	Week 1	#876	"Return From 'The Melbourne Incident'" -- Chika Honda    In 1992, five Japanese tourists visiting Australia were arrested on suspicion of carrying narcotics into the country, found guilty during a trial and sent to prison in what has come to be known as "The Melbourne Incident." All continued to insist that they were innocent during their 10-year sentences and now four of them have returned to Japan. We welcome as today's guest the only woman among the five, Chika Honda.  In this program, Honda, who became a Christian while in prison, shares with us about what it was that brought her through the ordeal.
	Week 2	#877	"The 'Hope House' Hospice Opens" -- Hiromi Yukawa    This week's guest is chair of the board of Yukawa Hospital, which celebrated it's centennial year last year and also opened a new hospice facility. The operation of a hospice is often thought to be an economically unprofitable undertaking, but this hospital looks upon the project as being a part of their mission. Today, we ask this Christian hospital administrator about the meaning involved in opening a hospice facility, as well as the struggles and the joy that accompany it.
	Week 3	#878	"Even in Sickness" -- Keiko Nakamura    Top class professional narrator, Keiko Nakamura, recently announced the release of a CD narration of author Ayako Miura's book, Even in Sickness (Yameru Toki Mo). Ever since her baptism nine years ago, Nakamura has wanted to do a narration of one of Miura's works, so in this program, we ask her to share with us her thoughts about the project.
	Week 4	#879	"Christian World News #3"   This is the third program in our new series on news reports from around the  world, courtesy of the  Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) in the United States. In this program, we bring you stories about a hockey camp for young people operated by a Christian group in Canada, some volunteer doctors at work in Bolivia, a pastor helping some North Korean refugees in China, and a report about the new image that the current generation of young people is exhibiting.

March

Guest	OA Date	Prog.	Description
	Week 1	#880	"Dr. Kinoshita's English School" -- Kazuyoshi Kinoshita    Dr. Kazuyoshi Kinoshita is well-known as a foreign exchange program advisor, an instructor on radio and television English-teaching programs, and an author of English instructional texts. As he grew up in a harbor town, Kinoshita encountered the outside world through the foreign ships that came into port. Through this experience, he became interested in the English language and began studying with a missionary at a church. Now, having mastered the language, Kinoshita has developed his own learning technique and promotes it all over Japan. We talk with him in this program about his method and how learners can use it to master the English language.
	Week 2	#881	"Update on 'The Melbourne Incident' Returnees"   In 1992, a group of five Japanese tourists were arrested in Melbourne, Australia for smuggling narcotics into the country. They stood trial and were all sentenced to prison terms, all the while insisting upon their innocence. Unable to clear themselves of the false charges during their ten and a half years in prison, four of the five were released on parole and returned to Japan last November. In this program, we bring you a look at a meeting arranged to update the public on their situation. In it they share, in their own words, how the four of them became Christians while in prison.
	Week 3	#882	"Son of a Hard-boiled Golf Legend" -- Atsushi Nakajima    Currently working as the manager of a golf course, this week's guest is the brother of pro golfer, Tsuneyuki Nakajima. All five children in the Nakajima family grew up with the harshly disciplined training  that their golf legend father imposed upon them. Later, his father had Atsushi take a hand in managing a golf course with him, but the father's sudden death ended up putting the responsibility for the whole project squarely upon Atsushi's shoulders. It wasn't long before he was hospitalized with a severe emotional condition. It was at that time that his brother came to see him and brought a Bible along with him. What was it that happened then that so turned Atsushi Nakajima's life around?
	Week 4	#883	"Christian World News #4"   This is the fourth program in our new series on news reports from around the  world, courtesy of the  Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) in the United States. In this program, we bring you stories about an American church that helps members lick their credit card debt, a missions team that is using American football to bring the Gospel to the upper class in Mexico, and some evangelists that are making Gospel inroads into the Islamic world of North Africa.
	Week 5	#884	"Living a Single-minded Life" -- Toshiaki & Hisako Ueda   Twenty-nine years ago, Toshiaki Ueda founded TuTuAnna, Inc., a wholesale and retail business aimed at producing the casual sock styles that young women want. Currently, there are 53 direct outlets and 27 franchises in the national chain. However, at the same time he was dealing with the hardship and hard work needed for this kind of endeavor, his family became entrapped by one of the religious cult groups that have recently been impacting society so negatively. What did he discover to help him begin solving this problem? (Re-broadcast)

April

Guest	OA Date	Prog.	Description
	Week 1	#885	"The Birth of the Bible, Part 1"   What can modern-day man know about how the Bible came to be? With some  video produced by The Bible Society in Israel as our guide, this week's program helps us trace the route of Bible history. In this first of two parts, we look at how ancient lettering developed, what kind of materials were used for writing, and what languages were used in writing the Bible.
	Week 2	#886	"The Birth of the Bible, Part 2"   This is the second of a two-part program exploring the birth of the Bible. In this program, we look at the development of paper and other writing materials, manuscript history and the birth of printing technology, and the history of Bible translation. Video clips chock full of valuable information make this program one you'll not want to miss.
	Week 3	#887	"The Church and Home School Movement" -- Hirō Inaba    The home schooling movement, which advocates parents educating their children at home instead of at public or private schools, has finally begun to take root in Japan. Today's guest, Hirō Inaba, is currently educating his own children at home, and also serves as the head of CHEA Japan (Church & Home Educators Association in Japan), one of the driving-force organizations for the home schooling movement here. In this program, we talk with him about the characteristic distinctives and advantages of home and church schooling programs.
	Week 4	#888	"Christian World News #5"   This is the fifth program in our series on news reports from around the  world, courtesy of the  Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) in the United States. In this program, we bring you stories about Christian rock music and its effect on teens in the U.S., some volunteers that are helping Indonesian children caught up in the devastation of war, and a school in Canada that prepares people who want to learn how to become Bible translators.

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