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Benjamin Philip Hoffman was an Adventist missionary, theologian, academic, and Japanese language translator who held multiple positions with Adventist institutions in Japan (1912-1921) and in the United States. Hoffman was particularly significant to the Seventh-day Adventist Church because of his support for Japanese and Japanese American Adventist communities over the course of his career.
Shuichi Tatsuguchi’s life was one of significant service to Adventist medical evangelism in the United States and Japan. From the 1890s through the 1930s, Tatsuguchi’s commitment to Adventism was apparent in both his personal life and in his work in Hiroshima, where his faith increasingly placed him—and his family—at odds with Japanese authorities in the decades leading into the Asia-Pacific War. “[O]ne of the first Japanese” to covert to Adventism, Tatsuguchi and his family became key figures in Adventist communities on both sides of the Pacific.