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St. Barnabas' Hospital (Osaka)
is a hospital founded in 1873 that is located in Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Japan. It is the oldest hospital of the Anglican Church in Japan. Characteristics The nearest station is Ōsaka Uehommachi Station. The hospital has long been committed to maternal health care and delivers more than 1,000 births a year. History 1873 :* Mar. - Dr. Henry Laning (M. D.) in Syracuse, New York, was appointed as a missionary doctor by the Episcopal Church of the United States. :* Jul. 4th - Dr. Laning arrived at Osaka :* This year he started to provide medical services at his house in Yorikichō, Nishi-ku, Osaka. He also studied Japanese. 1874 :* Jan. - US Japan Missionary Clinic was opened at Umehommachi 7, Nishi-ku, Osaka. :* Dr. Laning treated more than a thousand patients for free in the half year after this clinic was opened. He also sold and lent many Christian books in Japanese, in Chinese, and in English. 1877 :* Apr. - He established another clinic in the central Osaka, and the first c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennōji-ku, Osaka
is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It is named after the ''Shitennō-ji'' (Temple of the Four Heavenly Kings), which is located in the ward. General information Tennōji Station is the city's main southeastern rail terminal with Osaka Municipal Subway's Tennōji Station Midōsuji Line and Tanimachi Line, JR Tennōji as the terminus of the JR Hanwa Line (and a major stop on the Kyoto Line, Osaka Loop Line, Yamatoji Line and Kansai Airport Line) and the Kintetsu Abenobashi Station, directly across the street from Tennōji station is the terminus of the Minami Osaka Line. As a result of its being a major railway hub, it has become a major built up area in southern Osaka. The buildings around the station include, the Kintetsu department store, Mio, Station Plaza, and Hoop shopping malls, Apollo Movie Theater and Lucias shopping mall, as well as the more recent Q's Mall. In addition, there are several shopping streets in the area including Abenobashisuji. The Kintetsu Abeno H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Merrell Vories
Merrell Vories Hitotsuyanagi (; born William Merrell Vories; October 28, 1880 – May 7, 1964) was an educator, architect, entrepreneur, Christian lay missionary, and founder of the Omi Mission. Born in the United States, he later became a naturalized Japanese citizen. Merrell lived and worked mainly in Shiga Prefecture in Japan. With only limited formal training as an architect, he founded an architectural office in Shiga which employed over thirty professional staff and was responsible for the design of well over 1000 residential, commercial, and church structures in Japan and occupied Korea, prior to the Second World War. Biography Vories was born in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1880. He graduated from Colorado College in 1904. At first, he hoped to be an architect, although he came to Japan in 1905 as an English-language teacher, with an intention to engage in Christian missionary work. While working as a teacher in Omihachiman, Shiga Prefecture, in 1908 he was dismissed from te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hospitals In Osaka
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emergency department to treat urgent health problems ranging from fire and accident victims to a sudden illness. A district hospital typically is the major health care facility in its region, with many beds for intensive care and additional beds for patients who need long-term care. Specialized hospitals include trauma centers, rehabilitation hospitals, children's hospitals, seniors' (geriatric) hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as psychiatric treatment (see psychiatric hospital) and certain disease categories. Specialized hospitals can help reduce health care costs compared to general hospitals. Hospitals are classified as general, specialty, or government depending on the sources of income received. A teaching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hospitals Established In 1873
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emergency department to treat urgent health problems ranging from fire and accident victims to a sudden illness. A district hospital typically is the major health care facility in its region, with many beds for intensive care and additional beds for patients who need long-term care. Specialized hospitals include trauma centers, rehabilitation hospitals, children's hospitals, seniors' ( geriatric) hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as psychiatric treatment (see psychiatric hospital) and certain disease categories. Specialized hospitals can help reduce health care costs compared to general hospitals. Hospitals are classified as general, specialty, or government depending on the sources of income received. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hospital Buildings Completed In 2005
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emergency department to treat urgent health problems ranging from fire and accident victims to a sudden illness. A district hospital typically is the major health care facility in its region, with many beds for intensive care and additional beds for patients who need long-term care. Specialized hospitals include trauma centers, rehabilitation hospitals, children's hospitals, seniors' (geriatric) hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as psychiatric treatment (see psychiatric hospital) and certain disease categories. Specialized hospitals can help reduce health care costs compared to general hospitals. Hospitals are classified as general, specialty, or government depending on the sources of income received. A teachin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christianity In Osaka
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.38 billion followers representing one-third of the global population. Its adherents, known as Christians, are estimated to make up a majority of the population in 157 countries and territories, and believe that Jesus is the Son of God, whose coming as the messiah was prophesied in the Hebrew Bible (called the Old Testament in Christianity) and chronicled in the New Testament. Christianity began as a Second Temple Judaic sect in the 1st century Hellenistic Judaism in the Roman province of Judea. Jesus' apostles and their followers spread around the Levant, Europe, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, the South Caucasus, Ancient Carthage, Egypt, and Ethiopia, despite significant initial persecution. It soon attracted gentile God-fearers, which led to a departure from Jewish customs, and, af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanimachi Kyūchōme Station
is a railway station on the two lines of Osaka Metro in Ikutamamaemachi, Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Japan. Nicknamed "", the station connects with Osaka Uehommachi Station on the Kintetsu lines. Lines *Osaka Metro ** (T25) ** (S18) *Kintetsu (Osaka Uehommachi Station) ** Osaka Line (D03) ** Namba Line, Nara Line (A03) Service pattern The typical hourly off-peak service from this station is as follows. Tanimachi Line *10 northbound trains (every 6 minutes) to Dainichi *10 southbound trains (every 6 minutes) to Yaominami Sennichimae Line *8 westbound trains (every 7.5 minutes) to Nodahanshin *8 eastbound trains (every 7.5 minutes) to Minami-Tatsumi Station layout The station consists of two side platforms serving two tracks for the Tanimachi Line on the first basement, and an island platform serving two tracks for the Sennichimae Line on the second basement. Platforms Tanimachi Line Sennichimae Line History The station opened on December 17, 1968 as a stop on Line 2. It became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuruhashi Station
is a railway station complex in the Tsuruhashi district of Ikuno-ku and Tennoji-ku, Osaka, Japan. It is served by the JR West Osaka Loop Line, the Kintetsu Nara Line, and the Osaka Metro Sennichimae Line. Kintetsu Railway This station has a stationmaster and administrates itself and Imazato Station. Layout The station on the Kintetsu lines has two island platforms serving four tracks on the second level. The platforms enable passengers to change trains between the Nara Line and the Osaka Line ( cross-platform interchange). Adjacent stations History The Kintetsu platform featured what was once the smallest FamilyMart store in Japan. It closed down in June 2022. West Japan Railway Company This station has a stationmaster and administrates Teradacho, Momodani, Tamatsukuri and Morinomiya stations. Layout The station on the Osaka Loop Line has two side platforms serving two tracks on the third floor, over the western side of the platforms and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodosius Stevens Tyng
Theodosius ( Latinized from the Greek "Θεοδόσιος", Theodosios, "given by god") is a given name. It may take the form Teodósio, Teodosie, Teodosije etc. Theodosia is a feminine version of the name. Emperors of ancient Rome and Byzantium *Theodosius I (347–395; "Theodosius the Great"), son of Count Theodosius *Theodosius II (408–450) * Theodosius III (715–717) *Theodosius (son of Maurice) (583/585–602), eldest son and co-emperor of the Byzantine emperor Maurice Popes of the Coptic Orthodox Church *Pope Theodosius I of Alexandria (d. 566) *Pope Theodosius II of Alexandria (d. 742) * Pope Theodosius III of Alexandria (d. 1300) Patriarchs of Alexandria * Patriarch Theodosius I of Alexandria (535–567) * Patriarch Theodosius II of Alexandria (12th century) Other clergy and monastics In chronological order: *Theodosius, bishop of Philadelphia in Lydia, deposed at the Council of Seleucia, 359 * Theodosius the Cenobiarch (c. 423–529), a monk, abbot, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 123.2 million on narrow coastal plains. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. The Greater Tokyo Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channing Moore Williams
Channing Moore Williams (July 17, 1829 – December 2, 1910) was an Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal Church missionary, later bishop, in China and Japan. Williams was a leading figure in the establishment of the Anglican Church in Japan. His commemoration in some Anglican liturgical calendars is on 2 December. Early life and education Channing Williams was born in Richmond, Virginia, the fifth child of lawyer and delegate John Green Williams and his wife Mary Anne Crignan. His father served on the vestry of Monumental Church and led its Sunday school. Channing's first and middle names reflected Virginia's second bishop, Richard Channing Moore, who also served as Monumental Church's rector due to the Episcopal Church's financial straits in Virginia after the Revolutionary War and disestablishment. John Williams died when Channing was three years old, so the devout Mary Williams raised her four sons and two daughters rather than marry again. When Channing turned 18, he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nishi-ku, Osaka
is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It is in the west of central Osaka ("Nishi" means "west"), and is generally flat. 80% of the area was destroyed by bombing in World War II, and was not regenerated until the mid-1960s.Nishi Ward Official Website - "Ward Overview", retrieved 10 September 2007 (dead link now ) Governments and International organizations ;Local government *Osaka city, Nishi ward office (at near Metro ) ;Consulate *Chinese Consulate (at near Metro Awaza Station)Culture *Cen ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
