The ceremony, designed to console the spirit of Jesus, has been staged by the local tourism bureau since 1964. The Japanese are mostly Buddhist or Shintoist, and, in a nation of 127.8 million ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba released a statement on April 21 expressing condolences over the passing of Pope ...

The latest issue of The New Yorker includes an essay by Adam Gopnik, "We’re Still Not Done With Jesus,” on the scholarly debates about the origins of Christianity. In the piece, Gopnik ...

Hiroshi Okuyama, an upcoming Japanese film director, talks about his prized film Jesus which will be shown at the Sydney Film Festival opening from the 5th of June. Broadcast on the 21st of May ...