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JESUS UNDER THE TORI GATE

A Japan Prayer Network × FUK Accelerator documentary and formation inquiry into the witness of Japan’s hidden Christians—told through local memory, place, conscience and the long work of transmitting faith under pressure.

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Gifted being, shared life and witness in a Japanese landscape

Mission brief

Origin: FUK Accelerator mission brief, October 2023 Working context: Fukuoka, Kyushu and the wider hidden-Christian story Partners: Japan Prayer Network; Dan and Sharon Corbett; local elders, guides, artists and communities Primary medium: locally voiced short documentary, field interviews and formation resources

The original creative aim remains:

• gather and compose place-based footage capable of carrying the hidden-Christian story;
• produce in local language and dialect wherever possible;
• privilege the voice, logic and worldview of local elders and witnesses;
• serve Japanese audiences first while making the history intelligible to non-Japanese communities;
• create a conversation starter for King’s College formation, church communities and the Silence Tour.

Primary inquiry: How does received faith become a formed, embodied and generative life when confession is constrained by fear, persecution, silence or social pressure?

MODS × AoL research posture

This project does not begin by assigning historical persons, Japanese communities or Christian practices to modality labels. It begins with incidents, witnesses and independently situated sources.

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DERIVE FIRST; COMPARE SECOND.

The story of the hidden Christians is an inquiry site—not automatic proof of the MODS gift ontology, a one-to-one sevenfold correspondence or a universal theory of Japanese culture.

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Every major interpretive claim should be marked with one of six source codes:

• SOURCE CLAIM — explicitly taught in Scripture, MODS material or an identified historical source.
• PRAXIS RULE — something practitioners or communities repeatedly do.
• EXEMPLAR — a situated case showing that a mechanism can occur.
• OUTCOME EVIDENCE — observable change beyond the original bearer.