Yea basically shortly after the Tokugawa shogunate was founded, there was the Shimabara Christian rebellion where 37,000 Japanese Catholic rebels were executed. After that Japanese Christians were forced to go underground and most Europeans were banned from entering Japan because the Shogun suspected that European missionaries were involved with the rebellion.
I think there was a Liam Neeson movie aboot it too?
You are talking about Scorsese's Silence. Fun fact, the book it was based on was more popular among the Japanese New Left than Japanese Christians when it came out in the 60s, because supposedly it translated very closely to what happened to Japanese Marxists in the 30s.
According to that time I watched Ninja Resurrection, early Japanese Christians were persecuted by the Shogunate. I think there was a reincarnated Jesus and steam punk rocket launchers too?
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Yea basically shortly after the Tokugawa shogunate was founded, there was the Shimabara Christian rebellion where 37,000 Japanese Catholic rebels were executed. After that Japanese Christians were forced to go underground and most Europeans were banned from entering Japan because the Shogun suspected that European missionaries were involved with the rebellion.
Considering the complicity of Christian missionaries in other European colonial projects, that's a pretty safe inference to draw in retrospect.
You are talking about Scorsese's Silence. Fun fact, the book it was based on was more popular among the Japanese New Left than Japanese Christians when it came out in the 60s, because supposedly it translated very closely to what happened to Japanese Marxists in the 30s.
According to that time I watched Ninja Resurrection, early Japanese Christians were persecuted by the Shogunate. I think there was a reincarnated Jesus and steam punk rocket launchers too?
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