page_title: Walter Weston
section_title: Weston in Japan
hierarchical_section_title: Walter Weston / Weston in Japan
caption_attribution_description: English: Walter Weston Mount Ena Park, in Nakatsugawa, Gifu prefecture, Japan. 日本語: ウォルター・ウェストン像（恵那山ウェストン公園、岐阜県中津市）
context_page_description: Walter Weston, was an English clergyman and Anglican missionary who helped popularise recreational mountaineering in Japan at the turn of the 20th Century.
context_section_description: Weston went to Japan as a missionary of the Church of England's Church Missionary Society in 1888, working first at Kumamoto, then serving as chaplain in Kobe from 1889 to 1895. Alternating between postings to parishes in England, Weston spent a total of fifteen years in various ministries of the Anglican Church in Japan between 1888 and 1915 including service as a SPG sponsored missionary at St. Andrew's Cathedral and Christ Church, Yokohama.
  He began mountain climbing while expressing a strong interest in Japanese landscapes, traditions, customs and culture. He published Mountaineering and Exploration in the Japanese Alps (1896). As a writer and lecturer he continued to introduce Japan to an overseas audience. He gave universal currency to the term Japanese Alps, though it was first used before he came to Japan. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Japanese Alpine Club in 1906, and became its first honorary member.
caption: Weston Park in Mt. Ena
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