Christmas is for the Japanese, rather miserably, a regular working day. This might easily not have been the case.

Masatsugu Tanimoto, a farmer and one of the few remaining hidden Christians on Ikitsuki Island, hangs a scroll of the Virgin Mary and Jesus once secretly worshipped at his home in Ikitsuki Island in ...

IKITSUKI, Japan — On this small island in rural Nagasaki, Japan ’s Hidden Christians gather to worship what they call the Closet God. In a special room about the size of a tatami mat is a scroll ...

The five books I recommend below serve as a sampler of Christianity in East Asia from an evangelical perspective. They span several genres, from a missionary memoir and a collection of sermons by ...

Now that Shogun (review) has debuted, we're resurfacing our chat with the new series' showrunners. Based on James Clavell’s bestselling classic novel, Hulu and FX’s upcoming 10-episode limited series ...

IKITSUKI, Japan — On this small island in rural Nagasaki, Japan ’s Hidden Christians gather to worship what they call the Closet God. In a special room about the size of a tatami mat is a scroll ...

IKITSUKI, Japan — On the rural islands of Nagasaki a handful of believers practice a version of Christianity that has direct links to a time of samurai, shoguns and martyred missionaries and believers ...

Yoshitaka Oishi and others chant "Orasho" prayers during their annual performance at the Ikitsuki Island Museum "Shima no Yakata" in Ikitsuki Island in Hirado, southern Japan, Tuesday, April 29, 2025.