About seiyaku.com

What is 'seiyaku'? Well, it's just the Japanese word for 'vow' or 'oath'; an earnest and solemn promise we promise never to break.

This site contains an eclectic collection of articles we feel like publishing. More and more original articles are coming in from people all over the world. We're sifting through these and adding them to the site as quickly as possible.

So bookmark this page, check back from time to time, and see what's new and what's updated.

You should be able to see all seiyaku.com pages on a mobile phone or other handheld device. Many pages, however, are quite large and contain images that result in slow response times. To address this, we've recently begun a special version of the site, called seiyaku.mobi

The content is the same but the format and layout are changed to suit to the small screen of a handheld device.

If you have a QR barcode reader on your camera phone, scan the image on the left to give you 'quick response' access to the mobile site. If there is no barcode reader on your phone, you can access the same page at seiyaku.mobi/bible/. (If you are reading this page from a mobile phone already, just click on the iPhone photo on the right to take you to the mobile site.)

Seiyaku articles have been contributed by numerous authors from around the world. The editor is Paul Harding. Validation and research is conducted by Sarah Boynton. The webmaster is Gerald Harding.

Our contributors are truly from all over the world and yet we're as close to you as the screen you are looking at now.

We welcome comments, requests for additions, modifications and deletions. We normally reply within a day of your email. Criticism is also welcome, if helpful. (Trolls will not be fed.) If you use a spam-filter, please permit emails from www.seiyaku.com before you write to us at info@seiyaku.com

Articles are published on this site in good faith and we take no responsible for their accuracy. We will, however, correct any errors or omissions that are pointed out to us.

Anyone may submit articles for publishing on this website but we reserve the right to edit and modify articles. For example, duplicated or redundant text may be removed.

See Publication guidelines.

We try to be consistent.

For example, we spell "internet" with a lowercase "i". (Traditionally, like many other important words, "the Internet" was treated as proper noun. But conventions change. We no longer capitalise "email" or "french fries" and big as it is, "the sky" is not capitalised either.)

Yes, we spelt "capitalise" with "s". This site has an international readership so we bow to the majority and spelling is chiefly British English.

You are welcome to cite any page on seiyaku.com but you may find referencing this site as your only source is not acceptable for your institution. They may rule it does not qualify as an academically valid source.

Each page on this site is subject to continual change with the aim of improving usefulness and verifiability. Consequently, at any one time there can be no guarantee of the content's accuracy. Facts do not change, but interpretations and opinions are bound to be modified as the site matures.

You are advised not to depend on this website as your sole source of information.

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