Many missionary kids suffered physical and sexual abuse at the Christian Academy of Japan

Christianity Today March 13, 2023~Decades after dozens of missionary kids suffered physical and sexual abuse at the Christian Academy of Japan (CAJ), mission agency leaders associated with the Tokyo school fell prostrate on the ground to perform 土下座 dogeza, Japan’s deepest form of apology. The 13 leaders met with victims at a private retreat in Colorado last fall to hear their stories and offer a formal apology. “On their knees, heads on their hands, sobbing,” recalled Janet Oates, a 1963 alum of the academy, which was founded in 1950 as a boarding school for missionary children. “Alumni were sobbing too … one moment of justice.”