ABSTRACT
While church members demonstrate transcultural realities, their Japanese language needs and preferences result in the perceived need to construct Japanese ethnic church communities. This chapter addresses language planning and policy by discussing views about language planning, the goals of the church, Japanese ethnic church policy, open door policy, and English accommodations in Japanese ethnic churches. Concerning policy at City Japanese Church, Pastor Yuichi stated that City Japanese Church has a website and a Facebook page where the meso-level policy and intentions of the church are written in both Japanese and English. For River and City Japanese Churches, their websites are the meso-level spaces where they set the terms of policy for the goals and practices of the church. As stated, Mountain Japanese Church only uses a Facebook page to communicate with its members and the page is a “closed group” page that requires an invitation from a member to view the page.
