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For more than three decades, Alfonso Nils Anderson and his wife, Mayte Landis Anderson, were missionaries to the Japanese people, first in Japan, then in the Japanese community in the Philippines, where they survived three years in the harsh conditions of World War II internment camps.
Missionary to Japan
In 1913, Alfonso graduated from Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. The same year, he and classmate Mayte Landis were married and promptly accepted a call to mission service in Japan.
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Toki no Shirushi (
Shimei no Otozure (
Tidings of the Message). His additional roles included home missionary secretary and publishing secretary for the Japan Union (1919-1921), teacher of Bible and history at Japan Mission Training School (1921-1927), director of Tohoku Mission (1928-1934), and Bible teacher at Japan Union College (1934-1936).