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.
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.