A gory set of manuals, one dating to the 17th century, advised Japanese warriors in the secret ways of seppuku.

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On Ikitsuki and other remote sections of Nagasaki prefecture, Hidden Christians still pray to these disguised objects. They ...

On the rural islands off the coast of Japan, a handful of believers practice a version of Christianity that has direct links to a time of samurai, shoguns and martyred missionaries ...

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