Why Christianity is ‘foreign’ to Japan

Once already, this year, www.chiesa has brought to light the extreme difficulty that Christianity still encounters in making headway in Japan. (Sandro Magister, chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it)

Japan’s Catholic Garashia Hospital

As of February 2010, there are 195 authorized “palliative care units (hospices)” with 3839 beds around Japan … quite small number even including in-home care, considering the current situation in which cancer causes about one third (of deaths), according to Fr. Nobuyoshi Matsumoto, director of Garashia Hospital. (Japan Catholic News)