James Paul Colligan
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Father James P. Colligan has been a Catholic priest for sixty years. While serving as a priest in Japan, Colligan studied the Japanese language and can read, write, and speak Japanese. He earned a master?s in journalism in 1968 from Syracuse University and returned to Japan as a journalist. For a decade he contributed a regular column to the Japan ....
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Father James P. Colligan has been a Catholic priest for sixty years. While serving as a priest in Japan, Colligan studied the Japanese language and can read, write, and speak Japanese. He earned a master?s in journalism in 1968 from Syracuse University and returned to Japan as a journalist. For a decade he contributed a regular column to the Japan Christian Quarterly and was coeditor of their Protestant publication, Christianity in Japan. Colligan is a member of the Press Association, the Overseas Press Club, and the Correspondents Club of Japan, which awarded him a Life Membership. Colligan is now residing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.