Japan

Catholic Church should be the “church of listening,” Archbishop Kikuchi

"We want to be with the people." Archbishop Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi.

The Congregation of the Infant Jesus Sisters marks their 150 years of presence in Japan.

"Treat your patients as if they were your parents," is the motto of Tadashi Hattori

A 90-year-old Japanese Franciscan nun says God calls her to trust and serve in “daily tiny events."

Followers of Unification Church members are facing harassment and threats since former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's death.

As the Church in Japan holds its annual Ten Days of Prayer for Peace event the Japanese bishops reiterate that peace is everybody’s responsibility. In their message for the occasion, signed by the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan (CBCJ), Archbishop Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo, the prelates reflect on Pope Francis’ words in the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Archbishop Kikuchi of Tokyo condemned the assassination of the Japanese Ex-PM Shinzo Abe, saying “Only dialogue provides real solution to establish justice and peace"

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with Pope Francis and top Vatican officials in talks about the need for “a world free of nuclear weapon.”

“I received faith from my parents. I learned about the religion from them. Their teaching was very simple,” says Mary Green Rose Nant Zin Mar Tun, a migrant worker in Japan.

On April 5, 2022, Pope Francis appointed Sulpizio Shinzo Moriyama, a priest of Fukuoka, as Bishop of the Diocese of Oita.

First Filipino priest appointed as a new bishop of a diocese in Japan assumed his new responsibility on March 19, 2022.

Catholic bishops in the United States called on the faithful this week to pray for peace ahead of the 75th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

More dioceses in Japan have shut down Mass for the coming weeks in response to the ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus nationwide.