Not much time for research

I would love to get more info gathered about the rural church but have been busy designing the launch of a new chapel. But I want to increasingly add to the info so here goes about this area of Japan.
First of all I am writing from a place in the middle of the Tsugaru Peninsula.
If the link works on google maps http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=106546625757284734025.0004494b6d33b50040b77&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=40.7873,140.447159&spn=0.214712,0.355682&z=11&iwloc=0004494b70cfe15c651fb, have a look.
There are about 500,000 people who live in this peninsula.
Currently there are 25 churches listed in the Christian Handbook. I say currently because it looks like 4 will probably close over the next few years unless there is a revival. In those 25 churches there are about 930 members. As far as I can tell there are about 500 people who actually meet for worship on a regular basis.
So on average there are 1 in 1000 people who count Jesus worthy enough to worship as Lord and God. That is .1% who are in some way seeking to be like Jesus.
However those figures are for the whole Tsugaru. In some ways, by national standards the whole of the Tsugaru is rural but people around here consider the main cities of Kuroishi, Goshogawara and Hirosaki as non-rural. So if we subtract the nonrural stats, there are only 100 people meeting in 8 churches. There are about 200,000 people living in this area bringing the average down to .05%.
If I can take it one step further- the churches we are planting account for half that number so we could say there are only 50 people meeting in 6 locations, with a surrounding population of 170,000 people which brings the average down to .03% Christian.

Look it up- that is eqivalent to a Islamic nation where there are not the religious freedoms we have here.
Jesus have mercy on rural Japan and call people for your name sake.