Is Christianity Doomed to Fail in Japan? 

so amazing! which organization if I may ask? greetings from Germany

God is moving to East Asia, there will be around 295 million Christians in China by 2030, but God bless you🙏✝

Not unless you’re speaking in an unknown tongue which if I’m reading right this person is a Pentecostal of sorts so I do tend to believe this…

@@itdudeyt I have the videos And pictures of the people who accepted Jesus and videos of the people who receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit with evidence of speaking in tongues. May God bless you, and stretch your faith!

@@idontknowwhattowritelol amen I believe it!!! There is a window of opportunity 🙏🏽🙌🏽🔥

You've said it all!!!!!!!

Speaking as a young person, this is exactly it.

Truly spoken. God bless you!

This is ridiculous, japan is low crime, health, prosperous, etc because it is a blessed people who have a traditional culture of their own to fall back on if needed. Let’s not pollute Japan with foreign desert deities for low trust people.

Holy tradition has a lot to offer Japanese youth; established Christians have a hard time understanding what it is though, especially protestants. THE WAY will find a way.

She's in our prayers here in Oregon, USA. God bless her and work through her

@@Theletterdee thank you!

Amen! I'm feeling call to Japan too, but maybe in a different way. Please pray that God would continue to work in my life and open up opportunities for me to witness to the Japanese in the unique way that God has for me.

Nah

​@@Pfyzer May GOD'S blessing be upon you.❤

Praise the Lord! I'm so happy for you!❤🎉

That is awesome!!! ❤

"And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake." Genesis 18:32

Beautiful grace from God, thanks for sharing.

There is orthodox Christianity un Japan

Amen.

No

​@@Alanboss777 I'm truly sorry you haven't felt the love of Christ I pray you feel God's love 😚 ❤

@@Alanboss777no matter the pushback of opinions, the truth IS TRUTH and life will ALWAYS be life in and ONLY in Christ Jesus.

@@RezTheKingHe is so loving he will drown the world and even drown unborn babies! GOD LOVES YOU❤️❤️😍🥰😘💖

God bless you. Yes, Japanese Christians tend to be dedicated - praise God!

That is wonderful to hear!

The Catholic church has existed in Nagasaki for over 500 years.

@@deacondavid63deacon, that is stretching the English language pretty far.

@@earlysdayou really should read the history of Catholicism in Japan.

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The reason why not succes in japan, coz missionary bring Gospel in western culture. They must learned that how japanese easy accepted budha, coz blended in their culture. If missionary introduce Lord Jesus as perfection of Budhiso and perfection of samurai, japanese will able easy to get it. Coz Lord Jesus teaching pararel to Budhiso. About Honour , Honest , Brave , Dignity and Loyalty.

God bless you, Jaj.

Saved from what exactly? Going to hell for not believing that some dude called himself the only god 2024 thousand years ago?

@@Kol-jy4mp No, christian must spread Gospel is mean good news. And good news is mean become solving problem in society and community..

I am a Canadian who is half Japanese. I was born in Japan in 1954. My mother was Japanese and became a Christian in 1966 through the witness of Japanese Christians living in Calgary, Alberta. My mother's aunt was living in Tokyo during WW2. Because of the American bombing of Tokyo she dove unto a pond to escape the heat. She contracted tuberculosis. While being in hospital waiting to die she claimed that Jesus Christ appeared as a burning white light and healed her. What thing I am not clear about is if that was the point of her conversion or if she knew the Lord prior to that. She lived until 1978. My mother went to a Japanese Sunday School that was run by a German missionary but she did not come to Christ until 1966. One good thing about Japan and Germany being on the same side during WW2 was that it allowed a German missionary to go to Japan. My mother was a true believer but she hated her father and was a bitter woman all her life. She never became a Spirit filled believer. I have relatives in Japan that I pray for everyday.

If you see the level of mindfulness of the Japanese, you will realize that they are far ahead of the rest of the world mentally. Their practices through Shintoism and Buddhism have given them a mindset that is disciplined, harmonious, and peaceful. This is something Christians in the West generally don’t have (in contrast western christians are narcissistic, self righteous, and violent. And they refuse to open their mind to the other views of the world which are all in essence the same God). I say you have a lot to learn from the Japanese in terms of humility instead of imposing your religion and arrogance onto others. They don’t need others’ religions because they are already far more advanced. The world could learn something from the Japanese. Learn to be humble, listen, and learn from others instead of forcing yourself onto others. I have been to Japan and can see the Holy Spirit so strongly in the people there. Learn to see the Holy Spirit in others instead of arrogantly thinking that you and your ego will bring it to them. God is already there

Let a nation have it’s own identity

@@Kol-jy4mp With Canada it's too late. Canada is a country without a soul. We are completely dominated by American popular culture. The one good thing about Canada is that it is more peaceful and has a better standard of living than the country that most immigrants came from. Still some immigrants treat Canada the way a baseball player treats triple A baseball. They come to Canada, make good money, and then move to the USA because they can make even more money there. Plus in many places the climate is better.

​@Kol-jy4mpThry can do what they see fit, but we will go into the world and preach the gospel as GOD COMMANDS of us, and make disciples. 🙏 The overwhelming majority of japanese are on their way to hellfire!

Amen!

Will do, brother!

Please let Japan be itself

Another Shamgar 😊

Thank you for sharing! So encouraging to see how the Lord is moving in difficult places.

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Yes , please !

I've been laboring here for almost 3 decades, and the soil is flinty. But I believe the day will come when the Japanese repent, wake up, and follow Christ!

Please don’t

@@earlysdaRepent for what and to the same dude who would say he is morally superior and Ordered mass-killings, ordered the kidnapping of virgins, ordered the stoning of unruly children, ordered the enslavement of “the heathen who surround you,” wiped out all human life except his friend, had a vast majority of his children tortured forever for finite crimes, inventen anti-semitism and anti-Satanism, tortured Satan for opposing tyranny, killed a bunch of kids for making fun of his bald friend, condones the rape of child-brides? So loving 🥰

Praying for you!

I hope the "enemy" remains stronger than you.

God bless you, Aaron. I've been here nearly 3 decades, and the heart soil is flinty. However, there is a large reservoir of goodwill towards Christians, and I believe at the end time many of them will see that they need Christ, and there will be an explosion of Japanese turnng to Christ.

@@_blank-_The Enemy is stronger than all of us Christians, but we depend on Christ alone, and He is infinitely stronger. His victory will come!

Jeremiah had a very "unfruitful" ministry too! Doesn't mean he wasn't still a faithful prophet of the Lord! Praying from the US for our brothers and sisters all over the world! ❤

Im glad

Christianity is dead. They have made Christianity extinct in for 3 centuries now😂

Christians are not Indians

Yes, Buddhism is not indigenous to Japan. Even in Shintoism, there are gods believed to have foreign origins. However, Christianity differs because it cannot easily amalgamate with other belief systems. Buddhism does not prohibit its adherents from practicing other religions or holding different beliefs. A Buddhist can be atheist, theist, or agnostic. In Thailand, for instance, many Thai Buddhists worship deities they revered before Buddhism's introduction. Buddhism often integrates local beliefs, allowing many Buddhist societies to preserve their ancient traditions even after conversion. Christianity, on the other hand, is strictly monotheistic. Most Christians believe in exclusive devotion to Christ; they cannot engage in practices involving other figures. Thus, to embrace Christianity, one typically must renounce previous beliefs. Shinto-Buddhist syncretism is integral to Japanese culture. Even atheists or those without religious beliefs often participate in these traditions to maintain cultural ties, despite lacking personal faith. Consequently, Christianity cannot integrate into Japanese identity due to its inherent exclusivity.

@@Akira-dm3tj So which form of Buddhism is followed mostly in Japan?, the one that takes Buddha as an ordinary man with good values who never claimed to be god (Hinayana) or the version of Buddhism that sees him as deity (Mahayana)?. I can see why Buddhism integrates with other beliefs since it originates from another Asian country India, also because it is not an Abrahamic faith like ours which requires exclusivity of faith in the God of the Bible alone. Still to say that going to a Shinto shrine or a Buddhist one to be considered culturally "Japanese" is like taking it too far from a cultural standpoint in my opinion because Buddhism is not native to Japan and you also admitted that some Shinto beliefs are not from Japan. So why can't a person who is of Japanese origin and is a Christian cannot be considered Japanese culturally if he/she merely embraces the dressing sense and food habits and other minor non-spiritual cultural details of being a Japanese person?. If someone is going to say that going to a Shinto/Buddhist shrine even if he/she has no such beliefs is Japanese, that means that if I as an Indian go to those places without having Buddhist or Shinto beliefs, I should also be considered to be Japanese right?, still we all know that non-Japanese are considered to be "Gaigin". Is it because of the Japanese conformist culture which requires every cultural check box to be ticked to be considered culturally Japanese?.

Nationalism in Japan made Shinto and Zen-Buddhism ingrained parts of Japanese identity

God Bless You!

As a ambitious manga writer May the Lord bless your mine your confidence your wisdom and your love for Christ Amen 🙏

do you have a website or something?

working on it rn@@rx0102

Would love to connect

There are a lot of bad things that happened between Roman Catholics and Protestants in the past. "The five solas of the Reformation, which distinguished the Reformers from the teachings of Rome, include sola scriptura (Scripture alone), solus Christus (Christ alone), sola fide (faith alone), sola gratia (grace alone), and soli Deo gloria (glory to God alone)."

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭52:7‬ ‭ [7] How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the messenger who brings good news, the good news of peace and salvation, the news that the God of Israel reigns!

I hope you are real and fear God

Wow! My wife and I just moved to Japan for the same reason, we got here in October! 頑張りましょう！ 💪

Just curious what Christian tradition are you apart of?

@@user-yr6qt1gn2i Christians tend to have more kids than non-Christians. If there are more Japanese Christians it will help the Japanese population especially when combating homosexual tendencies that hurt the fertility rate of a nation.

Some people just aren’t christian. There is not much to think about. They may be lost souls in your eyes due to your beliefs, but they have been living a pretty good life with their own religion.

There is the Japanese orthodox church and at least a Romanian orthodox parish in Japan

Seeing the holy sites of a nation’s people and claiming to see “darkness” that has “blinded them” has to be one of the most disrespectful, colonizing thing I’ve ever heard.

Why you care about people's beliefs?

Japanese people are honorable, and they honor their mothers and fathers well. If one had top marks for keeping the ten commandments, Japan would be top tier for sure... with the one exception: the first. If you miss the one question on the exam that is 100% of the grade, do the subsequent detail questions make up for it? Sadly, no. Perhaps it would be useful to connect the concept of honoring the Creator of the universe as Father and His only Son which He sent to reconcile us back to His family? God bless and keep you sister. He makes paths straight through impossibilities.

Let Japan have it’s own culture, there is much more to that country than spreading a book

@@Kol-jy4mpthe ‘book’ is about a living God 🤍 if you doubt maybe consider asking Jesus directly, he will show you he is real

@@BeaWeston Maybe consider asking him on why would he drown innocent unborn children with the rest of 99% of the world just because other people are evil?

Do you believe in the trinity?

@@Kol-jy4mpWhere do you think Buddhism and Kanji come from? How does a Western religion threaten a pre-existing imported Eastern religion that isn't even followed by more than 10% of Japanese anyway? Also btw, if Japan doesn't open up (which will seed major changes far greater than any religion could) then they won't have a functioning sovereign country by 2035 given the birth rate and current demographics.

Shinto religion is Japans identity

Spot-on point about Shinto being the foundation of Japanese society.

@@Your_real_dadyes and that makes Japan a more unique country

@@Kol-jy4mp yes

It’s not only japan but many parts of the world in the past has this view of god or god’s residing in everything. And most of dieties that are worshipped today were the ancient beings that existed way before the ancient flood.

Indeed!!! ✝️🤲🕯🇯🇵

Luke 10:02!

God bless you hiroki as you study the Holy Bible. Jesus is real and wants to save you from your sins. :)

@@dontoverdoseoncopium machuuu, No, that didn't play a factor. The US ended the war that Japan started.

@@dontoverdoseoncopiumthat’s not about that at all. Portuguese came to Japan and started preaching the Gospels. Nothing to do with Americans

Nice video, but the take on the abombs was mistaken. Actually, they were judgments from God.

yeah, the Catholic Church has always being the one making the biggest efforts to convert the world

That's because the Catholic church has also been incredibly destructive with a hidden motive of subjugation. Their history gives other Christians a bad name.

Yes! It was really nice to hear, though I wish St Maximilian Kolbe was touched upon, especially considering his monastery that survived the blast in Nagasaki! But I deeply appreciate the recognition of St Francis Xavier and the many early missionaries who came to Japan (and of course many martyrs both foreign and Japanese)

What Christian tradition is she a part of?

​@fernandoperez8587 the church she attends is part of the JEC Japan Evangelical Church community.

I''ve been to 2 churches in Nara. The churches in Japan are getting older and there are no young people coming up. But I still believe many will come to Christ in the end days!

@@vickieminter6475 oh cool awesome

Just stop trying to make a whole nation believe your religion

Im going to add you guys my prayer list :) if you dont care

Yes they need more laborers! But all countries including America and the west Europe needs them as well! Jesus is coming back soon, we need more laborers!

Please come to Japan and lead these poor, lost, mostly kind peope to Jesus.

Found you! Praying! 🙏❤️

Just don’t, they don’t care

@@earlysdaIf you want true poor and lost people, go to a third world country because the Japanese have their stuff together

There were a handful of samurai that even converted to Christianity, particularly one Japanese officer that stood over Osaka at the end of Sengoku.

Hi Brother, I shared this one with Pastor Marcel. We are ramping up our production at JKC of testimony videos and a television format interview show. We’ve done a handful of pilot episodes that haven’t been uploaded yet, but hopefully this week the first episode will be released. God bless you and your family!!!

That is called great storytelling.

Then Nagasaki and Hiroshima got punished years later for their treatment of Christians. Hirado area has many good ancient Christian sites and a museum on them too.

Hirohito was allied to Adolf Hitler who was a very avid occult member that slew both Jews and Christians

And in a Church whose seed is the blood of the martyrs?

Haman was as evil as Adolf Hitler for trying to slay the Jews in Persia as Hitler did in Europe

Hey which verse?

Perhaps a Sicilian grandmother?

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If you are used to attempting to talk to people in English who don't speak English so well, the hand movements come naturally. Japanese people who think I don't speak Japanese too well use their hands a lot too. Since I am not as kind as I would like to be, I sometimes say "What's up with the sign language?"

You can start #learningJapanese now!

Japan is wonderful a place and I am grateful that they make so many Super Mario Bros. games so families can enjoy them. One good thing about Japan they make games like Mario Kart and Mario Party for family friendly fun.

It is a noble sentiment for them to prefer to be with their ancestors in Hell, rather than go to Heaven without them, but it is foolish. They will not be able to comfort their ancestors at all by joining them in Hell; if anything, their damnation would increase the torment of their ancestors, because their own family was damned because of them. If they go to Heaven, however, perhaps they can mitigate the torment of their ancestors, or at least prevent it from getting any worse. After all, Jesus said that the rich man begged for Lazarus to warn his brothers, though it was too late for him.

he's a protestant (no hate involved), he won't dwell deeply into discussions regarding orthodoxs, given the theological differences (i think its a miracle to see them even mention St. Francisco Xavier, or the Catholic Church)

The video was incorrect about the abombs, and could have done better telling about　潜伏キリシタン、but was generally very good.

At the time no one would convert without the king's permission. Things are different now.

Good point! Yes, I believe Christians need to go to that country humbly and let them know that even though some missionaries misrepresented Jesus, Jesus is the most beautiful savior who doesn't have a racist or greedy bone in His body!!

I've watched it from YT too but from what I understand it's the Japanese empire selling their own people to the westerners. (It's same with African elites selling their own slaves to the Americans) Adding insults to the injury, the westerners bite it too.

The ironic thing is that visiting a church on New Year's Day is entirely Christian. New Year's Day is the Circumcision of the Lord, the Octave of His birth. Christians around the world assemble to commemorate His birth and circumcision. In fact, this is why January is reckoned by us as the first month of the year (the Romans reckoned January as the eleventh month and March, the month of the Vernal Equinox, as the first). Let them make their New Year's shrine visits, not to the houses of graven images, but to the House of the Living God, to worship Him in Spirit and Truth.

Orthodoxy doesn't save, believing in Jesus does 🕊️

​@@Steven-hq3goThe Orthodox believe in Jesus. So what is your point exactly?

Praise God!

Japan is a bit like 1st century Rome or it was certainly when the era of Sengoku or warring states came about in the late 16th century, a campaign that ended in the wake of the 17th century. Nobunaga, Hideyoshi and Tokugawa tried to end Christianity once and for all. Just like Emperor Nero when he ruled over Rome.

When you're talking to a _Paulian_ ... Q: Who is God? A: Jesus Q: Is Jesus the son of Mary? A: Yes, Q: Who is God? A: Jesus *God Jesus was born from the mother he created (Mary) Q: Is Jesus a born son? A: Yes, Q: Who is his father? A: God Q: Who is God? A: Jesus *God Jesus is the father of God Jesus and the creator of the mother he was born from her the son of his wife Q: Is Jesus the servant of God? A: Yes, Q: Did Jesus die on the cross? A: Yes, Q: And for whom did he go up? A: To God *God Jesus was crucified & ascended to God Jesus Q: Is Jesus a Messenger? A: Yes, Q: Who sent him? A: God Q: Who is God? A: Jesus *God Jesus was the messenger of God Jesus. God sends himself as a Messenger of himself Q: Did Jesus pray when he was alive? A: yes, Q: Whom was he praying for? A: For God Q: Who is God? A: Jesus *God Jesus worships God Jesus himself Q: Does God have a beginning? A: No Q: So who was born on December 25th? A: Jesus Q: Who is God? A: Jesus *God Jesus is eternal before everything but he was born in 25th Dec Q: Where is God? A: In heaven Q: How many Gods are there in heaven? A: God is only one. Q: Where is Jesus sitting? A: He is sitting on the right of God. Q: Is Jesus a God? A: Yes Q: So how many Gods are there in heaven? A: Only one God Q: Where is Jesus? A: He is sitting to the right of God. Q: So how many gods are there in heaven? A: Only one god. Still Q: Is Jesus a God? A: Yes Q: So who many seated gods are there? A: Only one God? Q: Where is Jesus? A: He is sitting next to the god. Q: How many gods are in heaven? A: Only one. Q: Are they sitting on the same chair? A: These words are understood only by the one who has the holy spirit. *so.. God sacrificed God to God in order to save God's creation from God. God prayed to God for help but God didn't help God, and God killed God with help from humans. And that God is a father of himself and the mother of himself and the son of mother he created at the same time. He is also eternal but his birthday is...? ~🤡~

This is a very major misunderstanding of the trinity. Yes, God,Jesus, and the Holy Spirit all have the same power and essence. But they are all individual persons within that essence. The Father created us, Jesus saves us, and the Holy Spirit become part of our life once we believe and transforms us. Hope this helps!

Most Japanese are Irreligious. They might accept your rosaries but it's not a guarantee they will accept Catholicism 100%. For worst, they can use it as charms and luck. But we knew Jesus works in mysterious ways and I hope that Japanese woman will find Jesus Christ in the near future.

God bless you, Michael. Japan is around 0.8% Christian, and dying. A survey years ago of beliefs in Japan showed that 80% believed in Buddhism, 80% Shinto, and around 40% Christian.

I mean it WILL work out, at least everyone there will hear His Word, because when every living being hears about Jesus and His sacrifice for us in the cross will He return to this earth.