There is grave need for a complete revaluation of Christian missions in Japan today. Post-war policies of the major Boards, the tremendous influx of independent and diverse new groups and ...

TACOMA, Washington, March 18. -- Some of the leaders of religious thought in Japan are endeavoring to choose between Buddhism, Shintoism, and Christianity as the future religion of the empire.

These devotees and other hidden Christians in Japan astonishingly managed to continue their faith for seven generations—about 250 years—despite persecution, bloodshed, and no missionaries or ...

Japan would deal a massive blow to the universal principle of religious freedom, could deeply damage its relationship with the U.S. and would hand a major win to communist China if it follows through ...

In 1614 Christianity was outlawed in Japan. Under the new law – missionaries were arrested and sentenced to death. However, some Christians refused to abandon their religion and went underground ...

In total, 55 Christians died on Nishizaka Hill on September 10, 1622, joining the ranks of more than 400 people killed in Japan for their religious beliefs between 1597 and 1637.

24 to Toshiko Abe, the education minister. The 2,218 items were used from the mid-16th century when Christian missionaries first came to Japan until the 1950s. That so many items survived is ...

The eighth-century poetry anthology “Manyoshu” is to Japan something like what the Bible is to Judeo-Christian civilization: its cultural foundation. Each is a record of its people’s childhood.