Japanese is spoken by 125,000,000 people: 121,050,000 in Japan, 804,000 in USA, 380,000 in Brazil, 109,000 in Peru, 2,657,000 elsewhere.
Publishing History
Part of the Bible was published for the first time in 1837.
The New Testament was first published in 1879.
The complete Bible was first published in 1883.
This Page
This shows the first few verses from John's Gospel in the NICF version, first published in 1978 by Japan Bible Society, Tokyo. This page is taken from a New Testament published in 1994 by Japan Bible Society, Tokyo.