Editing Book of Common Prayer (section)

====Japan====
The BCP is called "Kitōsho" ({{Langx|ja|祈祷書}}) in Japanese. The initial effort to compile such a book in Japanese goes back to 1859, when the [[Christian mission|missionary societies]] of the [[Church of England]] and of the [[Episcopal Church of the United States]] started their work in Japan, later joined by the [[Anglican Church of Canada]] in 1888. In 1879, the {{Nihongo3|Anglican Prayer Texts|聖公会祷文|Seikōkai Tō Bun}} were prepared in Japanese<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/3/|title=Sei Kōkai Tōbun|journal=Printed Books|volume=({{Langx|ja|聖公会祷文}})|year=1879}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/Japan/ |title=The 1959 Japanese Book of Common Prayer |access-date=24 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930195534/http://www.justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/Japan/ |archive-date=30 September 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> As the [[Anglican Church in Japan]] was established in 1887, the [[Romanisation of Japanese|Romanised]] ''Nippon Seikōkai Kitō Bun'' ({{Langx|ja|日本聖公会祈祷文}}) were compiled in 1879.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mammana.org/bcp/japan1889/|title=Nippon Seikōkwai Kitō Bun, Translated by the Rev. John Batcheler|year=1889}}</ref> There was a major revision of these texts and the first ''Kitōsho'' was born in 1895, which had the [[Eucharist]]ic part in both English and American traditions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/mgda/bible/gaisetsu/dokuji.html|title=Japanese Translation of the Bible by Each Denomination (1895 Kitōsho)|language=ja}}</ref> There were further revisions, and the Kitōsho published in 1939 was the last revision that was done before [[World War II]], still using the [[Historical kana orthography]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rekishi-archive.city.naha.okinawa.jp/archives/item4/6834|title=Nihon Sei Ko Kwai Kitosho (1938, Revised and Enlarged)}}</ref>

After the end of the War, the ''Kitōsho'' of 1959 became available, using [[Modern kana usage|post-war Japanese orthography]], but still in traditional [[classical Japanese language]] and [[vertical writing]]. In the fifty years after World War II, there were several efforts to translate the Bible into modern [[Colloquialism|colloquial]] Japanese, the most recent of which was the publication in 1990 of the [[Japanese New Interconfessional Translation Bible]]. The ''Kitōsho'' using the colloquial Japanese language and [[horizontal writing]] was published in the same year.  It also used the [[Revised Common Lectionary]]. This latest ''Kitōsho'' since went through several minor revisions, such as employing the [[Lord's Prayer]] in Japanese common with the [[Catholic Church in Japan|Catholic Church]] ([[:ja:主の祈り#カトリック教会と日本聖公会の共通口語訳|共通口語訳「主の祈り」]]) in 2000.