Ron and Debbie Galbreath 
Japan A/G Missions Our ministry is church planting in Japan. We are currently planting the first Pentecostal church in Hachinohe, a city of 250,000 in Northern Japan. We've been in this present location since December 1996.
The field of Japan is one of the most unreached in the world. In many missions fields where there is already a strong, self-propagating national church, the major focus of missionary effort is on training national workers. The greatest need is for support of the national church in the form of Bible training. In Japan, on the other hand, the greatest need is for missionaries to do the foundation laying for new churches, often raising up one of their own converts to take over the pastorate of the new congregation once it is stable enough. This kind of work is a lot like what the Apostle Paul did when he made his missionary journeys through the Roman Empire.
Japan, population 125 million, is one of the most unreached countries in the world. Even when counting "Christians" of every sect and variety, they still make up less than 1% of the population. Church attendance for all Protestant churches combined is somewhere around 0.2% (2 for every 1000 people) for Japan as a whole. (We don't have the exact figures for Catholics, but their numbers are approximately the same--resulting in less than 1% if you count all sects of Christianity.) If you were to count only evangelical Protestants, the percent is about half that, or somewhere around 0.09%.
This percentage drops drastically the farther you get from the major metropolitan areas. If only those who attend Bible-believing, Gospel-preaching churches were counted, the percentage would be only a tiny fraction of this. The vast majority of Japanese (nearly everyone) are Buddhist and Shinto. Needless to say, most Japanese have never even met a Christian, much less attended a church service or heard the Gospel.