Blake Christian has wrestled for almost every national wrestling promotion in the world, but New Japan Pro-Wrestling has his heart. In an interview with Koffin Radio, Blake Christian reflected on his ...

The Shimabara Rebellion reveals how faith, fear and power converged in Tokugawa Japan, ending in martyrdom, massacre and ...

The Japanese last week sold to U.S. Protestantism the idea that their new united Japan Christian Church is much better than it has been painted by journalists and missionaries recalled or ...

In Japan, the suppression of Christianity increased from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 17th century, and many missionaries and Japanese believers were martyred during this period ...

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 ...

A 17th-century painting of the September 10, 1622, Great Genna Martyrdom, in which 55 Christians were beheaded or burned alive Public domain via Wikimedia Commons On an early September day in 1622, a ...

Curated by Prof. M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J., Director of the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College, this exhibit explores the reality of Jesuit missionaries in Japan ...

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 ...

To the student of human society, as well as to the friend of propaganda, few things seem more interesting than the struggle of Christianity with a nation whose long history, diversified civilization, ...