Since last summer’s mission crisis (TiME Sept. 9), more than half of the 900-odd U.S. missionaries who were in Japan in January 1940 have left, and many more will soon go home—partly because ...

A new book on post-war Japan says Gen. Douglas MacArthur sought to fill the country's "spiritual vacuum" with religious and quasi-religious beliefs, from Christianity to Freemasonry, as an ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has a long history of pragmatism about traditional religions, which often serve more as connections to family and community than as theological guides, as in the West.