Doubts about the death of Jesus have always existed, at least for those who are not fundamentalist Christians. Of course, if Christ was not resurrected, it is our faith, said a saint whose name I do not remember, but today we can allow ourselves those doubts without losing our religiosity.
I have heard about the tomb of Jesus in Kashmir, India, for example, but did you know about the tomb of Jesus in Japan? It is located in Shingo, within Aomori prefecture, a very small and little known village and the people here say the mound you see in the photo crowned with the cross is the tomb of Jesus, the son of God.
According to historical documents known as the Takenouchi DocumentsApocrypha, Jesus was not the one who was crucified on Golgotha. His place was taken by his younger brother, so after being captured by the Romans it seems that he managed to escape by changing places with the brother. And he went ... to Japan!
Always according to these Japanese documents Jesus settled in Shingo and had three children with a local woman. He died at the age of 106 of natural causes and in fact, many of the villagers are believed to be descended from him. And do those documents still exist? No, they were destroyed in World War II although their reproduction is in the local museum dedicated to Jesus. Truth or elucubration? The truth is that the appearance of the local people has its peculiarities, the same the language and the clothes ...