FARK.com: (7144289) "Some 500 tourists attended a festival Sunday in the village of Shingo, Aomori Prefecture, where women in kimono danced in a circle around a cross erected on a spot that locals believe is the tomb of Jesus Christ"

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		"Some 500 tourists attended a festival Sunday in the village of Shingo, Aomori Prefecture, where women in kimono danced in a circle around a cross erected on a spot that locals believe is the tomb of Jesus Christ" (japantimes.co.jp)		19
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albuquerquehalsey		2012-06-05 03:48:26 AM

3 votes:

BronyMedic		2012-06-05 06:36:42 AM

2 votes:

NetOwl: Raw_fishFood: Yeah, it's pretty crazy. I remember reading about this on Fark a few years ago, and it mentioned how Jesus was hiding from Tokugawa Ieyasu, despite the fact that it was some 1600 years or so after he died? It just sounds a little mad. Heck, I am surprised that there isn't an anime series about how Jesus was an immortal who hunted tentacle demons through time and space while hanging out with a gaggle of school girls who all want to bone him.

That's basically the plot to Evangelion.

Evangelion has a plot?

danielscissorhands		2012-06-05 03:46:32 AM

2 votes:

Plant Rights Activist		2012-06-05 03:42:25 AM

2 votes:

Things are easy when you're Big in Japan

Virulency		2012-06-05 03:36:24 AM

2 votes:

"To console the spirit of Jesus, the women danced a traditional Bon dance while singing "Nanyadoyara," which has been passed down from generation to generation in the village. However, even locals have no idea what it means. The festival has been held since 1964."

1964 seems pretty recent for generation to generation

Gyrfalcon		2012-06-05 03:35:17 AM

2 votes:

Jesus was Japanese?

That's going to cause some problems.

LazarusLong42		2012-06-05 09:08:46 AM

1 votes:

Christopher Moore unavailable for comment?

/Jesus invented the martial art known as Jew-Do, the Way of the Jew.

BronyMedic		2012-06-05 08:48:48 AM

1 votes:

Silverstaff: Basically, in Japan, Christianity is a strange, foreign religion that has a mystique to it, and often gets twisted and mutilated and crossed with their own belief and culture. It's a little how Zen Buddhism or Hinduism gets treated in the US.

You're trying to tell me that all Zen Buddhists aren't insane martial artists who live in apocalyptic desert wastelands, and can make people explode by hitting them in the right place?

doglover		2012-06-05 08:18:28 AM

1 votes:

shivashakti: It's interesting. Read more here.

Allegedly, according to these Japanese, Jesus escaped crucifixion. His brother got crucified in his place...then Jesus went to Japan where he lived until the age of 106.

The Muslims and some early fringe Christian groups also believed Jesus didn't get crucified but had someone else go in his place.

And Japanese and Hebrew share 500 words that are eerily similar.

And there's a few temples in southern Japan that are old as dirt and laid out identical to Hebrew temples and certain religious practices from Israel are identical to certain festivals in Japan that predate contact between the cultures. There's also a mountain where it's quite possible the Ark of the Covenant, if it is real, was secreted when the lost tribe of Israel came to Japan.

Anal		2012-06-05 07:55:36 AM

1 votes:

So... they like to dance on his grave..?

Tax Boy		2012-06-05 07:51:50 AM

1 votes:

NetOwl		2012-06-05 06:13:30 AM

1 votes:

Raw_fishFood: Yeah, it's pretty crazy. I remember reading about this on Fark a few years ago, and it mentioned how Jesus was hiding from Tokugawa Ieyasu, despite the fact that it was some 1600 years or so after he died? It just sounds a little mad. Heck, I am surprised that there isn't an anime series about how Jesus was an immortal who hunted tentacle demons through time and space while hanging out with a gaggle of school girls who all want to bone him.

That's basically the plot to Evangelion.

zzrhardy		2012-06-05 04:12:28 AM

1 votes:

You know, Edo period Japan should be used as an worldwide example of how Christianity and State can get best co-exist.

Raw_fishFood		2012-06-05 03:48:02 AM

1 votes:

Yeah, it's pretty crazy. I remember reading about this on Fark a few years ago, and it mentioned how Jesus was hiding from Tokugawa Ieyasu, despite the fact that it was some 1600 years or so after he died? It just sounds a little mad. Heck, I am surprised that there isn't an anime series about how Jesus was an immortal who hunted tentacle demons through time and space while hanging out with a gaggle of school girls who all want to bone him.

BronyMedic		2012-06-05 03:47:21 AM

1 votes:

The Japanese gave us furries and tentacle porn.

God, bless us, everyone!

fusillade762		2012-06-05 03:46:00 AM

1 votes:

Ed Willy: I remember hearing about this a few years ago. There was even claim that there were some blue-eyed local Japanese to prove they were descended from Jesus.

Except Jesus was Middle Eastern and had brown eyes (maybe green).

No way man, the REAL Jesus was Aryan.

El Pachuco		2012-06-05 03:42:42 AM

1 votes:

No, dude was like the son of god, and was a tall white guy unlike everyone else in Judea at the time, and died somehow for my benefit, and then came back to life a few days later and then scuttled off somewhere, but he didn't go to Japan cuz' that's totally unbelievable.