According to the legend in Shingo, Japan,
when Jesus was 21 he visited Japan to
“pursue knowledge of Divinity for 12 years.”
At age 33, he traveled back to Judea to start
his mission, but the people in Judea did not
accept him as the Son of God, and decided
to crucify him.
Jesus brother, named Isukiri, took Jesus’s
place on the cross and was crucified while
Jesus escaped back to Japan and settled
there in Shingo and had 3 children with
a Japanese woman he married called
Miyuko.
Until his death at 106, he shared wisdom
and kindness with the village people, though
he was not said to have performed any
miracles there.
He is claimed to be buried in Shingo in a tomb
under a mound embedded with a large wooden cross
standing about 6 feet high.
The burial site is considered a shrine that
pilgrims visit and report feeling a profound
sense of peace there.
Bob Boyd