The Way (é“会, Michikai) is an indigenous Japanese "church" movement that was founded by Matsumura Kaiseki in 1907. Matsumura originally called his movement the One Heart Association, but in 1907 renamed it the Church of Japan and rented quarters to hold regular meetings. the following year he launced the magazine The Way, which became the primary carrier of his new Confucian version of Christianity. In one of the early issues matsumura laid out the purpose of the magazine as to express independent religious views, to explore Psychic phenomena, to apply higher criticism to Christianity, and to integrate the culture and ideas of East and West.