{"id":14004,"date":"2025-07-16T07:39:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14004"},"modified":"2025-07-16T07:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:41:14","slug":"japan-why-so-hard-to-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14004","title":{"rendered":"Japan: Why So Hard to Reach?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: Radical, July 15, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why does Japan reject foreign religions like Christianity? Is Christianity doomed to fail in Japan? In <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wNbfHt2V6VA?si=xGnh64wdUyKepmwi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hard to Reach: Japan<\/a>, Steven Morales travels across one of the most beautiful\u2014and spiritually complex\u2014nations in the world to uncover why Christianity struggles to take root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pieces of this 45-minute documentary were released in 2024 and are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLPWYBBat7NTkhJrM-_OwGbvN1YzvSqBEb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">still available as a playlist of stand-alone videos<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hard to Reach: Japan (Full Documentary)\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wNbfHt2V6VA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2014and spiritually complex\u2014nations in the world to uncover why Christianity struggles to take root. The pieces of this 45-minute documentary were released &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14004\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan: Why So Hard to Reach?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14006,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14004\/revisions\/14006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}