Few Japanese wish to baptize, the country’s Orthodox leader regrets

Metropolitan Daniel of Tokyo and all Japan The Japanese Orthodox Church 8/2/2012 *** He can’t find a successor Moscow, February 6, Interfax – The Japanese Autonomous Orthodox Church faces problems in its mission: people in the “land of the rising sun” do not hurry to baptize. “We have newly converted believers, who have been baptized. But the majority of the baptized are children of mixed Japanese-Russian marriages.