Japan closed down 638 Congregations losing 5,337 Publishers....any ideas why? Internet?

by Witness 007 22 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  Witness 007

  Japan had incredible increases in the 80's and 90's of 20-30 thousand publishers a year until it collapsed in 1998....figure since then till 2011 have been going down.

  1998 -222,912 Publishers -3,802 Congregation

  9 Years later.

  2006 -217,519 Publishers -3,164 Congregations {loss of 5,357 publishers closed 638 Congregations}

  {Note that Japan Publishers average 31 hours a month compared to world 15 hours}

  Did the rise of the internet do this, or the Cult subway gassing in Tokyo around that time, or the "generation 1914 teaching"
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  RubaDub

  Susposedly eating sushi has pagan origins and they are discouraged from eating it.

  Rub a Dub
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  Soldier77

  Great analysis. I wonder what the figures are for the USA, UK and Australia.
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  Sapphy

  I would be very interested to find out what has caused the stagnation and decline in Japan over the past 12 years.

  I have a memory of poster possible-san talking about it, but I havent seen him around here lately.
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  Iamallcool

  marking. I want to know why too.
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  Gayle

  population decline, strict immigration laws?
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  Aussie Oz

  i wonder why too... possible san?

  in those same years according to the yearbooks

  the number of congs world wide went from 87644 in 1998

  to 99770 in 2006, a rise of 12126.

  i think its a case of the increases come more from latin america and africa... the rest of the world like Japan has been milked dry.

  oz
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  cyberjesus

  they placed more importance on the RICE
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  designs

  Do you remember how the Japanese Witnesses were used as the 'model' for all of us Liberal and slack Witnesses. Even the 'model' of the Witness world get tired of that kind of grind.
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  Bungi Bill

  Designs,

  Good point - even the "industrious", "dedicated" or whatever JWs in Japan (in the 1980s, the WTS seemed to run out of pleasant adjectives with which to describe them!) could not keep up the pretense forever.

  Bill.