Dr. MacKay in this. But there may come a time when more pressure will be brought to bear on us. I for one shall resist the innovation as long as possible. But we live in Japan, and there may come a time when we may have to make some such concession to Japanese desires. I sometimes feel the want of the Japanese language ; and I expect our missionaries will feel this want more and more unless they study it.11 To what extent the use of Japanese language was made mandatory in mission schools at this stage remains uncertain ; 12 however, Gauld ’ s writing suggests that the missionaries had reasons other than the pressure from the authorities to wish to acquire Japanese or to use the language in the educational scene. By 1905, the CP Mission held a shared understanding that Japanese teachers should be hired for educational work. After making repeated requests to the home board through 1905 and 1906,13 a Japanese teacher was finally employed when the Girls ’ School was reopened in 1907.14 As for Japanese language study among the CP missionaries, Thurlow Fraser, on his arrival to Taiwan in 1902, already expected that he would