John Batchelor (missionary)
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John Batchelor (1928)
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Archdeacon John Batchelor D.D., OBE (20 March 1855 – 2 April 1944) was an Anglican English missionary to the Ainu people of Japan.
First sent under the auspices of the Church Mission Society of the Church of England, Batchelor lived from 1877 to 1941 among the indigenous Ainu communities in the Northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. He was a charismatic and iconoclastic missionary for the Anglican Church in Japan and published highly regarded work on the language and culture of the Ainu people. Batchelor only reluctantly left Japan at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1941.[1][2]
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Early Life and Missionary Career
John Batchelor was born in Uckfield, East Sussex son of William Batchelor, a local tailor and parish clerk. Batchelor attended Uckfield Grammar School and with the support of Rev. E.T Cardale was accepted as a candidate for study at the Church Missionary Society College, Islington.
On the 22 September 1875, Batchelor set out with a group of CMS missionaries for Hong Kong. Arriving in Hong Kong on 11 November 1875 he immediately set about studying the Chinese language.
Views on the Treatment of the Ainu Communities
Batchelor harshly criticised the Japanese for their cruel treatment of the Ainu, saying "I'm past eighty, and probably that accounts for it. But I've been told I'm the only foreigner in Japan who can tell the Japanese exactly what I think of them and get away with it."[3]
The Japanese forced the Ainu from their land and forbade them to practice their traditions and culture, Ainu were not allowed to hunt for food, speak Japanese, or obtain an education, being forcefully segregated in small villages.[4] After Japan realised they could exploit the Ainu they reversed their policy, Batchelor said "The Japanese treat them better now, simply because they came to realize that the Ainu were a valuable curiosity worth preserving. There was no kindness or sentiment in it—none whatever. They quit trying to exterminate this shattered relic of a dying Caucasian race when visitors with money to spend began coming from all over the world just to see and study them. If today the Ainu are protected wards of the Government, and if the Government has paid me any honor, it is not because of a change of heart on the part of the Japanese; it is only because the Ainu became worth something to Japan."[5] During the era of Samurai in Japan, Ainus had to grovel and smear their face on soil when they met a Japanese soldier, or face immediate decapitation.[6] Japan also forbade the ownership of weapons among the Ainu.[7]
Batchelor wrote extensively, both works about the Ainu language and works in Ainu itself.[8]
Works by Batchelor
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- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.(PUBLISHED BY THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY, TOKYO)(Harvard University)(Digitized 30 November 2007)
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- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[Original from Harvard University Digitized 11 Sep 2007][LONDON : CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C.]
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[Original from Harvard University Digitized 30 Jan 2008][YOKOHAMA : R. MEIKLEJOHN & CO., NO 49.]
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[Contributors Hakodate Chamber of Commerce, Tokyo Tsukiji Type Foundry Original from Harvard University Digitized 20 Jan 2006][TOKYO : PRINTED AT THE TOKYO TSUKIJI TYPE FOUNDRY, 1893.]
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.(Harvard University)(Digitized 20 January 2006)
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.(the University of California)(Digitized 21 November 2007)(LONDON THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY 56 PATERNOSTER ROW, 65 ST PAUL's CHURCHYARD and 164 PICCADILLY)
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See also
References
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- John Batchelor at Project Canterbury
- The reason why John Bachelor made his mind to work for the Ainu
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- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[Original from the University of California Digitized 27 January 2009 Length 444 pages]
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[ISBN 1419168789, ISBN 978-1-4191-6878-9 Length 320 pages]
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- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[ISBN 1419168789, ISBN 978-1-4191-6878-9 Length 320 pages]
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[Original from the University of California Digitized 16 October 2007 Length 313 pages]
