Abstract
The ‘new’ new religions have clearly demonstrated that many Japanese remain interested in causal explanations centring on the miraculous, and are actively concerned with the incidence of religious dynamism in their lives. This interest in miracles, mystery and spiritual power is not limited just to the ‘new’ new religions but extends beyond them into a healthy publishing industry focusing on such issues as spirit possession, UFOs, the myths of Mu and Atlantis, and other such phenomena that appear to be a mixture of ‘new age’ concepts and extremely traditional Japanese folkloric ones. Nowadays in Japan there are many magazines, the best-known of which is called Mū, devoted to accounts of the supernatural, visitations, UFOs and the like, which sell several hundred thousand copies a month.
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