I was pleasantly surprised that Ryunosuke Akutagawa's collection of short stories contained a few stories on Japanese Christians. One of his short stories (the title being this posting's heading) concerned the account of a healing miracle. The notes in the translation by Jay Rubin also stated that Akutagawa read the bible closely but was unable to believe in divine miracles. During his short life, he travelled to Nagasaki and took a deep interest in 17th century Japanese Christian martyrdom. He committed suicide at the age of 35: he took a fatal dose of Veronal and fell asleep reading the Bible.
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