Jesus was a Japanese Rice Farmer?

Deep in the northern Japanese countyside, where farmers grow rice and apples as they have for centuries, a remote mountain stands. If you take the time to climb that mountain and make your way through a dense thicket of bamboo, you'll find a mound of bare earth marked by a large wooden cross. This, my friends, is the grave of Jesus Christ.

Duncan Bartlett, the reporter who wrote this BBC story wonders why Christ's grave would be marked when a cross when, according to local belief, Jesus did not die at Calvary. Instead, "[t]he story goes that after escaping Jerusalem, Jesus made his way across Russia and Siberia to Aomori in the far north of Japan where he became a rice farmer, married, had a family and died peacefully at the age of 114." Nonetheless, it was Jesus's brother who took his place on the cross, yet the sacrificed brother is also buried in Japan, his corpse somehow having made the journey from Jerusalem after his crucifixion.

The intrepid Mr. Bartlett seeks out the living relatives of Jesus, a "tubby middle-aged gentleman in glasses who ... did not seem particularly Messianic." Jesus's descendent tells our reporter that his family is not Christian, but Buddhist.

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