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The ‘Tomb of Christ’ is in … Japan? Inside the remote village guarding one of history’s strangest legends
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Local legend has it that instead of dying on a cross in Jerusalem, Jesus escaped to Japan and spent the rest of his life in the countryside. An annual festival is held in his honor.
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