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[Japanese]

Bible, Colloquial Japanese -- Kougo-yaku (OT and NT) (1954/1955)

• Bible, Colloquial Japanese
• Bible, Colloquial Japanese with Ruby
• Bible, Colloquial Japanese in PDF format
• Bible, Colloquial Japanese with Voice
  Synthesized by a Text to Speach synthesizer software.
  Original voice data was created by holybibleja.org
• Bible, Colloquial Japanese with Voice(galatea talk)[experimental]
  Synthesized by another Text to Speach synthesizer, called Galatea talk
• Bible, Colloquial Japanese in DAISY format[experimental]
  DAISY(Digital Accessible Information SYstem) is a standard for Digital Talking Books.
  For the detail of DAISY format, consult DAISY Consortium

Those texts are based on the Colloquial Japanese Bible Published in 1954/1955 ( whose copyright is expired at 1 Jan 2006 ). Note that the texts currently available from the publisher are slightly different from those published in 1954/1955 , and their copyrights may be still active.
The most commonly used bible by the protestants in japan till the publishing of the New Interconffessional Translation (Shin-Kyoudou-yaku) in 1987.

Bible, Classical Japanese -- Bungo-yaku/Taisho-kaiyaku (NT) (1950)

• Bible, Classical Japanese
• Bible, Classical Japanese with Ruby
• Bible, Classical Japanese in PDF format
• Bible, Classical Japanese with Voice(galatea talk)
• Bible, Classical Japanese in DAISY format
  

The New Testament part of The Classical Japanese Bible (so called Bungo-yaku) was published in 1880(Meiji-yaku) and revised in 1917(Taisho-Kaiyaku). Our texts are based on the texts printed in 1950 which are almost same as those of 1917.

Bible, Classical Japanese -- Bungo-yaku/Meiji-yaku (OT) (1953)

• Bible, Classical Japanese
• Bible, Classical Japanese with Ruby
• Bible, Classical Japanese in PDF format

The Old Testament part of The Classical Japanese Bible was published in 1887. Though some minor corrections are made, no major modifications/re-editions are made on the Old Testament part. Our texts are based on the texts printed in 1953.

Bible translated by E.Raguet -- Raguet-yaku (NT) (1910)

• New Testament
• New Testament with Ruby
• New Testament in PDF format

Emile Raguet(1854-1929) is a Belgian missionary. He came to japan at 1879. He translated a New Tastament based on Vulgate into classical japanese in 1910. His translation was treated as the semi-official catholic translation in japan.
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SWORD modules

SWORD is a Bible Reader software developped by CrossWire SWORD Project.
Here are collections of SWORD modules for Japanese Bibles.

• Bible, Classical Japanese (Bungo-yaku/Combination of NT:Taisho-Kaiyaku and OT:Meiji-yaku)
• Bible, Colloquial Japanese (Kougo-yaku)
• New Testament (Translation by E.Raguet)
  
• The Denmo Bible (A translation of World English Bible)
  (Not all of the World English Bible is translated into The Denmo Bible. Only portion of WEB is available.)

• Informations about our repository for SWORD modules

OSIS formatted files (for developpers)

The OSIS format is defined in The OSIS Website.

• Bible, Colloquial Japanese(with Ruby)
• Bible, Classical Japanese(with Ruby)
  (Combination of NT:Taisho-Kaiyaku and OT:Meiji-yaku)

External LINKs

• History of Japanese Bible Translation
• Java ME application for mobile phones, of the Japanese Bungo New Testament translation and Kougo translation.

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