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+# Church & Station
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+[Church & Station](https://www.christiantoday.co.jp/infographics/church-station/) is a Christian Data Journalism project of 
+[Christian Today Japan](https://www.linkedin.com/company/christian-today-japan/) 
+designed to help church planters find unreached areas in Japan 
+by visualizing train stations with more than 1000 passengers without no churches around the specified distance.
+It is a single page web application with full screen map plotting churches and train stations of Japan.
+
+It is available in languages spoken in 2 biggest missionary sending neighbour countries of Japan, English and Korean as well as Japanese 
+so that those who in charge of making mission strategy can be free from language barrier.
+Those who support mission by prayer, giving, or training can also benefit from the project learning visually learning unreached area in Japan.
+
+Distance from stations to Churches can be switched from 500m to 3km. (Elderly gets tired with shorter walk while younger feels fine walking longer.)
+
+## Why train stations?
+[Rail transport in Japan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Japan) is advanced compared to many countries.
+Churches in Japan take advantage of the railway network for Evangelism promoting distance from nearby station.
+People use train to visit churches in most cities in Japan.
+
+## Legend
+* **Blue bar graph:** stations without churches with hight representing the number of passengers (a logarithmic graph).
+* **Blue dots:** same as above when seen in zoom out view where height of the bar gets unrecognizable.
+* **Orange graph and dots connected each other:** Church & Station pairs within the specified range.
+* **Orange dots:** Churches including ones outside of the specified range.