Meiji Gakuin University
Imbrie arrived in Japan in 1875, where he became a professor of New Testament Exegesis at Meiji Gakuin University and later served as senior missionary in Tokyo. He was also the president of the Japanese Book and Tract Society and prepared materials to help Westerners learn the Japanese language. He was instrumental in working for Christian unity in Japan and helped shape what became the Church of Christ in Japan.