1. Gordon A. Madsen, comp., A Japanese Journal (N.p., n.d.), pp. 6–7, 11. Excerpts from the missionary diary of Heber J. Grant. See also Alma O. Taylor, “About Japan and the Japan Mission,” Improvement Era 10 (November 1906): 1–9.

2. The Japan Times, 22 August 1901, p. 3; F. Staniland to the Editor, The Japan Weekly Mail, 31 August 1901, p. 226; Hōchi Shinbun, 19 August 1901, p. 3; Yomiuri Shinbun, 19 August 1901. The above are translated by and quoted in Frederick R. Brady, “The Japanese Reaction to Mormonism and the Translation of Mormon Scripture into Japanese” (Master’s thesis, Sophia University International College, 1979), pp. 94, 97–98, 126–27.

3. See Brady, “Japanese Reaction to Mormonism,” chap. 5.

4. One of Grant’s autographed calling cards is in Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

5. Otis Gray, A History of Christianity in Japan: Protestant Missions (Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1976), 1:149.

6. Heber J. Grant, Address, 4 April 1902, Conference Reports, 1901–1904, pp. 47–49; see also Murray L. Nichols, “History of the Japan Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1901–1924” (Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1957), pp. 19, 34.

7. Takahashi Gorō, Morumonkyō to Morumon kyōto (Mormonism and Mormons) (Tokyo: Published by author, 1902). A copy is in Special Collections, Lee Library, BYU. Translations by Brady of significant portions are in Brady, “Japanese Reaction to Mormonism,” chap. 7.

8. Ibid., pp. 17–22.

9. Nichols, History of the Japan Mission, pp. 25–26.

10. Heber J. Grant, Address, 4 October 1903, Conference Reports, 1901–1904, p. 13; Nichols, “History of the Japan Mission,” pp. 25–26.

11. Entire account in Alma O. Taylor, “Journal C,” 17 December–20 December 1903.

12. Uchida Yū [Akira?], Morumon shū (The Mormon sect) (Tokyo: Bunmeidō, 1902). A translation by Brady of most of the contents is in Brady, “Japanese Reaction to Mormonism,” chap. 6.

13. An Uchida Akira wrote a book entitled Jidai no dōryoku (Efforts of an era) in 1938. I identify him with Uchida Yū because it was and is common for Japanese writers to use pseudonyms, and scholars prefer Chinese-sounding names, which are often adapted from their given names, The character for “Yū” is the same as one of the characters in “Akira.”

14. Nichols, “History of the Japan Mission,” p. 17.

15. Uchida, Morumon shū, pp. 1–3, 68–69, 91–92; see Brady, “Japanese Reaction to Mormonism,” pp. 140–41, 158–59, 161, for translations.

16. Brady, “Japanese Reaction to Mormonism,” pp. vii, 126–68.

17. Uchida, Morumon shū, pp. 9–10, 21–22, 26, 28; see Brady, “Japanese Reaction to Mormonism,” pp. 142, 145, 147–48.

18. Takahashi, Morumonkyō to Morumon kyōto, pp. 221, 233–34; see Brady, “Japanese Reaction to Mormonism,” pp. 178–79.

19. Brady, “Japanese Reaction to Mormonism,” pp. 109–10.

20. Takahashi, Morumonkyō to Morumon kyōto, p. 33; see Brady, “Japanese Reaction to Mormonism,” p. 168.

21. Takahashi, Morumonkyō to Morumon kyōto, p. 172–73; see Brady, “Japanese Reaction to Mormonism,” p. 172.

22. Grant, Address, 4 April 1902, Conference Reports, 1901–1904. See also Nichols, “History of the Japan Mission,” p. 64.

23. Alma O. Taylor, “The Mormon Church and Polygamy,” appendix to John W. Stoker, trans., Matsujitsu Seito Iesu Kirisuto Kyōkai ryakushi (A brief history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), by Edward H. Anderson (Tokyo: Japan L.D.S. Mission, 1907), pp. 24–25; see Brady, “Japanese Reaction to Mormonism,” p. 116.

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