@article{oai:nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000293, author = {SHIMAZAKI, Hiroshi}, journal = {Nichibunken Japan review : bulletin of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies}, month = {Jan}, note = {In the early 1970s, a group of japanese Chistians established a Hutterite desslement north of Tokyo, the culmination of a fifteen-year search for a religious model that would alllow them to live communally as described in the Bible in Acts 2 44 The ideal model was found in the Hutterites, an Anabaptist group formes in the early sicteenth in the Moravia Thoughout their history, Hutterites have been persecuted for their religious beliefs and customs, including the practice pf a fundamenralist religion, adult baptism, and pacifism. Their resonse has been migiration. In 1874 they leftEurope and moved to the United States, and in 1918 they migtrated to Canada where the majority continue to live today in communal agriculteral settlements called colonies.The process through which the Japanese Hutterite colony(Owa colony) wvolved abd the role Canarian Hutterites plated in this process are examind, as is the character of the Canadian Hutterite model.}, pages = {145--164}, title = {The Emergence of Japanese Hutterites}, volume = {12}, year = {2000} }