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  djarno

  9 months ago

  Sounds like a Japanese version of Mormonism.
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  Captain_Ron

  9 months ago

  I agree, only somehow this seems to make more sense, haha
  
  Unless they were both right and there were an army of Jesuses all over the world!
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  djarno

  9 months ago

  "Army of Jesuses." Wow. I want everyone to take a couple of minutes to ponder that idea.
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  pestonio

  9 months ago

  I'm in Japan at the moment. Maybe I'll go visit this place. I love the Japanese take on western popular culture and it doesn't really get any bigger than fake Christmas, uhh, I mean Kirisuto-matsuri...
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  koichi

  9 months ago

  I love how a lot of people think it's Santa's birthday, and then have Christmas Cake :)
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  Viet

  9 months ago

  KFC Strawberry Shortcake Christmas Cake.................. yum/
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  Emi

  9 months ago

  ^_^ lol
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  Jennifer

  9 months ago

  Lmfao...wow. I love Japan and the ways in which we suffer miscommunications with each other.
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  McAlpine

  9 months ago

  I've been there twice. I forgot to take the picture of the plaque from Isreal which was flown over by an Isreali delegation a few years ago. If you check my flickr "Tony Alexander" you can find it.
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  koichi

  9 months ago

  did you take a picture as jesus' family?
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  Finlay Clark

  9 months ago

  Haha! Japan what were you thinking!
  Thanks for the research Koichi
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  moshi_moshi

  9 months ago

  Sorry for double posting, I'm making an account.
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  Rob_Hoolan

  9 months ago

  Haha Japan seems to be the only country that can bastardize religion and not be called racist.
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  Izeyhec

  9 months ago

  just shows that it is a wonderful place lol
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  WOTDsctoo

  9 months ago

  If we want to take a picture, how do you decide who gets to be Jesus? D:
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  Julie

  9 months ago

  Janken, obviously. It's Japan.
  ;)
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  Eevee

  9 months ago

  This is too, too interesting. As a Christian, I find this amazingly hilarious. And as always Japan comes out with 500 points for originality. I can only hope that the number of Christians in Japan is not affected by this place or story...
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  Alexandre

  3 months ago

  This is no more, no less "amazingly hilarious" than any other holy site in Israel. They serve to attract tourists and belong more to fables than reality. And for those who are looking for the Holy Graal, might as well come have a look in Japan!
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  Ana_chan

  9 months ago

  Awesome article! Yay!
  I agree with the theory of the white dude who somehow ends up in Japan; indeed, either his name got rather harmed when "translated" in Japanese (the same happened to me) or the bloke really thought he was Jesus. And who could blame him for remaining in Japan instead of going back to the crazy continent, really?
  I think the whole "Jesus-picture"--which is hilarious, really--is what we meddlesome westerners get for messing with religion in Japan; it seemed complicated enough as it was with Shintoism and Buddhism.
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  emiko

  9 months ago

  since i'm a christian i can't say that i agree with the article, but over all i really thought it was interesting!
  
  chris the viking?
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  gohkal

  9 months ago

  Reminds me of the Jesus in India stories (goes to India to learn the ways of Hinduism then returns to Judea with new fangled ideas).
  
  hungry for some niniku ramen now....
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  Chester_King

  9 months ago

  I WANT to believe.
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  McAlpine

  9 months ago

  Correction. I have the picture of the plaque in my flickr.
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  Captain_Ron

  9 months ago

  Perhaps this explains Segata Sanshiro...
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  Tofugu_Erin

  9 months ago

  Hahahahahaha.
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  Kristin

  9 months ago

  Hmmm... Maybe not a viking, since they didn't know about the whole christ thing. Would be cool if it was the grave of Thor the thundergod or something. I once heard that one of the former african colonies got its name by the english because they asked the natives what it was called and the natives replied with hello in their languange or something and the english thought it was the name. Puh, long sentence. Just saying, maybe they just thought they were talking about two different things. "what's your name dude on the beach?" "Jesus christ you've got some nice women in this country!". ....maybe.
  
  Nicely done by jesus, faking his own death. Could explain the whole showing up alive later deal. "Oh i have to go back to heaven now" but really it was his wife who had told him he wasn't allowed to stay for longer than 30 days (or however long it was) so he had to go back to japan.
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  jrfiction

  9 months ago

  Legend has it that one of the 3 sacred treasures of the Japanese imperial family is a Hebrew mirror thousands of years old. The so-called mirror of Yata (Yata no kagami) is inscribed with "eheyeh asher eheyeh" (I am that I am), the name given to god in Exodus 3:14. No one living has ever seen it, yet every few years the silk cover which protects it from prying eyes is covered in yet another layer of silk.
  
  It is held at the Grand Shrine in Ise, and is considered so sacred not even the emperor himself has seen it.
  
  Remember that large parts of the life of Jesus, if you believe in the man as a historical figure, remain undocumented. It is quite like that in time between his coming of age and his return to Israel in his late twenties he went travelling. Perhaps the true life of Christ is more fantastic than we could ever imagine.
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  derek

  9 months ago

  that made the hairs go up on my neck...
  good work.
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  Tofugu_Erin

  9 months ago

  Neat story!
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  Alexandre

  3 months ago

  Obviously, the emperor himself doesn't believe the story or he'd be a Christian...
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  Maciel

  9 months ago

  haha the tourist attractions
  thats funny
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  Chris_paros

  9 months ago

  LOL, I can imagine their faces if some viking guy just washed ashore... It could also be a sort of "nihonjinron" theory but I dunno... Stil pretty funny though!
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  omareduardo

  9 months ago

  now this makes jesus' story so much more interesting.
  to think that i spent so many years being lied to...
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  koichi

  9 months ago

  Thing is, that dude ain't buddha, everyone in the West's got that one
  wrong
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  astrorainfall

  9 months ago

  This is a great post. Amazing and bizarre....
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  stshores24

  9 months ago

  Hmm, can you say 'syncretic'? :)
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  fuazu

  9 months ago

  lol...this is interesting
  for a second there,i wanted to believe
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  kakapoopy

  9 months ago

  thats REALLY funky and very amusing haha. ITS SO WEIRD!
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  altonet

  8 months ago

  Interesting, though I'm a bit confused ............ @.@
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  subhrajit

  7 months ago

  i neeeeeeeeeeeeed a friend live in japan.(no age limit)
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  Jesus Empty Tomb

  2 months ago

  Interesting like the theories of the Mormons.
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  Grant

  4 weeks ago

  THe post Kristen mad shows she/ he is not a big cristian becouse he died and came back alive 3 days laer. and It is posible it is a scam mde to make the town atorist atraction, It would be a big hit with the ani christins out there that awant to take out oour fathe.
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  Grant

  4 weeks ago

  I forgot to say you defonently could not get to the islands of japan from Isreal in 3 friken das, But then again he did come back and we do not know what appened after. and a lot o her life was undocumented.
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