This week, we explore the “Christian conspiracies” of Edo Period Japan. Working backwards from the Osaka Incident of 1827, when…
Japan’s “Christian Century” is the source of many fascinating aspects of Japanese history, from modern firearms to tenpura. But there’s…
This week, we’re taking some material from the cutting room floor of last series to talk about the stories of…
Our final episode of this miniseries will detail the early decades of the Christian persecutions in Nagasaki. Once the religion…
This week, Hideyoshi’s death seems to suggest an end to the persecution of Nagasaki’s Christians. However, the city quickly finds…
This week: Hideyoshi’s ‘friendship’ proves less useful than hoped, resulting in a 1587 ban on Christianity and Nagasaki losing its…
This week, Christian Nagasaki survives its early trials and tribulations to become a Jesuit fortress-town, and a centerpiece of some…
This week: the story of two men whose fascinating life trajectories led them into an interrogation room in Japan’s Edo…
This week we’re going deep into the bizarre theories of Japanese Israelism: the conspiracy theory that modern Japanese people are…
This week, we wrap up our history of Christianity in Japan with a look at the Occupation and Postwar Eras…