Japanese Concept of Christianity

Japan's Christian population is about 1%. There is not a very good understanding of Christianity among the Japanese. Of course the same is true for most non-Christian Westerners (although unlike Japanese non-Christians, most Western non-Christians believe they understand what Christ is all about, but that's not my point).
My point is: Japan expresses its horribly wrong conception of Christianity in very different ways than the West does, in a distinctly Japanese way: cute.

A picture from a gift shop in Seki, a small traditional town I visited this week
Wear a Christian cross as a charm to bring Love, Success, Money, or Lucky!

A toy that sold in Japan (which probably wasn't distributed very widely)
On the box, you can see a boy praying to the toy for the love of a school classmate.
(the source, Engrish.com, generally only presents examples of bad English from Japan, but in this case, they included the toy because they were struck by its extremely off-base concept of God).

This is a part of the spiritual environment outside the walls of Yokkaichi Christ Church.