all right so straight from Japan I just got these Bibles in the mail and before
I get to those though I want to go over some backstory basically now that I'm
learning Japanese I want a good Japanese Bible translation but the problem is a
lot of the modern Japanese Bibles are just like the modern English Bibles
they're corrupt they're using bad manuscripts bad translation practices I
don't want that I want a King James equivalent Japanese Bible and there was
one that I knew of before called the Meiji version it's from 1887 and
basically that one you know because it's kind of old it uses some old grammar
which is an ideal but it was translated from the King James English which really
isn't also ideal either because then it's a translation of a translation but
it is possible and there are a couple resources online for instance you can
find PDFs of it and there's also an app called docu demo so if I show you that
on my phone here you can basically read the you know read the whole Bible it has
New Testament and Old Testament has all the furigana and even has the King James
English there so you could get by with it but the problem though was that it's
not in print at all I could not find a physical book of it anywhere if you know
of one definitely let me know but I've never seen one that was kind of my
starting point I knew about that one for a while now but I really wanted a more
modern version and I finally found one so I'll pull them out of the package
here so these are the books just says uh basically New Testament TR Japanese
translation so just Shin Yaku Seisho TR Nihongo Yaku and then it says it's by
Eternal Life Ministries but basically this is supposed to be a Japanese
translation just of the New Testament directly from the Texas Receptus which
is what the King James translated from so it should be a pretty equivalent text
it should be better than the Meiji Aku because it was from you know that was a
translation of a translation this is directly from the original so in that
regard it should be better just to give you kind of overview it is using a
standard kind of traditional Japanese book format so you know when English or
spine would be on the left we open it like this but in Japanese the spine
would be on the right you'd open it like this you'd read vertical top right
to bottom left you know that's no big deal getting used to the thing though
this is it does have very minimal furiana so you know actually being able
to pronounce a lot of this stuff you know you'd have to basically type it out
for me anyway which is an ideal and unfortunately I haven't been able to
find a PDF or an app or anything of this so you know transcribing this whole book
obviously is gonna take take me quite a lot of time but you know assuming that
this is the best Bible version available for Japan I mean that's pretty much what
I'm gonna have to do so you know certainly if you know that this has
problems if you think it's corrupt you know definitely know about that or if
you know of just any good way of getting a digital version of this so the way I
bought these things was through this site called Mercari which to best of my
knowledge is basically like a Japanese eBay you could see here there were two
of them which is the two that I own so one was 2,400 yen and the other one was
2,700 yen and basically if you go up this blue banner here that says you know
shop internationally with buyee so if you do that this site actually becomes
English and you could see that you know the one was $22 the other one was $25 of
course that's kind of deceptive because you know there's a whole lot of shipping
costs afterward so the final cost for each of these two Bibles one was $56 the
other was $62 of course they're used obviously they're pretty expensive and
it's pretty a lot of work to really get all of the forms and stuff to to get
them to buy it and ship it to you but you know from what I know this is the
best Bible available so it's kind of a requirement but going forward if I
wanted to recommend this Bible to a lot of people it's pretty hard because right
now I can only buy a used version of it and that only happens when everyone pops
up on their little eBay site so you know the guy does have his own website where
it looks like he sells them but I think he only sells them in Japan so
definitely let me know if there's a way you can buy these more readily and also
cheaper but that's basically it so like I said you know I'm assuming that this
is the best Japanese Bible available of course it's only a New Testament but
that's really all I need for now you know please let me know if you don't if
you disagree but otherwise I'm going all-in on this thing so I hope that
helps God bless you have a great day