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		<title>Fukuoka family cult members request pension payments from beyond the grave</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A belief in resurrection may not have been the only reason five skeletons were kept in a Japanese house.]]></description>
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		<title>Mummified corpses found in Japan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police in western Japan are investigating five badly decomposed human bodies found lying in a house, apparently because of a belief in resurrection, officials and a news report said Wednesday.]]></description>
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		<title>The Japanese Jesus trail</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Japanese legend claims that Jesus escaped Jerusalem and made his way to Aomori in Japan where he became a rice farmer. Christians say the story is nonsense. However, a monument there known as the Grave of Christ attracts curious visitors from all over the world. 
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		<title>Japan is proud home of Christ&#8217;s tomb</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In A paddy-lined valley in the far north of Japan is a municipal signpost inscribed: “Tomb of Christ: next left.”
Follow the winding path up into the forest and there, sure enough, is a simple mound with a large wooden cross labelled as the grave of Jesus. Nearby is a tomb commemorating Isukiri, Christ’s brother, adorned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Jesus walked in Japan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the thoughts of the world&#8217;s Christians turn to events in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago, the inhabitants of a little village a few hours&#8217; drive from Tokyo prefer another version of the Greatest Story Ever Told. David McNeill reports
The village of Shingo nestles in a mountainous patch of pine forests, rice paddies and apple trees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Town Claims Tomb of Christ</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SHINGO, Japan (AP) _ Nearly 2,000 years ago, a man fled for his life from the Middle East, crossing Siberia and Alaska before living out his days in this snowbound hamlet in northern Japan. The tale is fanciful enough, but even more so when townspeople tell you the name of the visitor they say is [...]]]></description>
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