A vital snapshot of faith and organisation in postwar Japanese society. Essential resource for church historians. The Japan Christian Year-Book 1962, by Hirai Kiyoshi, is a disciplined religious yearbook collection that maps congregational life, institutional ties and the networks of Protestant missions in Japan. Its compact authority functions as a church reference guide: it situates local parishes within broader trends in Japanese Christian history and Christianity in Asia, while offering a rare window on the religious demographics in Japan during the 1960s. Readers exploring Japanese Christian studies, the history of Protestant missions or changes in faith communities find the balance of factual reporting and period perspective both practical and illuminating. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Beyond immediate reference use, the year-book is historically significant: it offers a contemporaneous perspective on 1960s Japan religion and on how faith communities adapted to postwar social shifts. As a church historians resource, it helps trace denominational networks and missionary activity, and it supplies factual grounding for studies of religious demographics in Japan during this period of rapid change. Academic researchers and librarians working in Japanese Christian studies or compiling Asian church directories value its dated context and the practical leads it provides for deeper archival work. Casual readers encounter human-scale details of congregational life and the administrative language of an era; classic-literature collectors gain a period piece that belongs on shelves alongside other cultural documents of modern Japan. Taken together, the volume is both a practical church reference guide and an evocative historical record - compact, credible and richly informative for anyone surveying the shape of Christianity in Asia at a crucial moment in the twentieth century.