Japan: Why So Hard to Reach?

Source: Radical, July 15, 2025

Why does Japan reject foreign religions like Christianity? Is Christianity doomed to fail in Japan? In Hard to Reach: Japan, Steven Morales travels across one of the most beautiful—and spiritually complex—nations in the world to uncover why Christianity struggles to take root.

The pieces of this 45-minute documentary were released in 2024 and are still available as a playlist of stand-alone videos, but these week Radical released them as a single video. This may be a good example of how effort and impact are not the same.

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