A stronghold of Christendom once flourished in Japan, with a peninsula called Shimabara at its head. A statue of Amakusa Shiro, who led the Catholic Shimabara Rebellion, stands at the ruins of Hara ...

NAGASAKI, Japan — Lying east of Nagasaki City, the Shimabara Peninsula is home to parks, hot springs, mountains, tourism spots and Christian sites. The peninsula is also known for the Shimabara ...

Jonathan Clement’s latest book focuses on the troubled arrival of Christianity to Japan, and the Shimabara Rebellion, an uprising of Catholic Christian peasants in 1637-38. Japan’s early Christians ...

Most video gamers probably recognize Shiro Amakusa’s name as a villain from the popular 1990s Samurai Shodown series. In the games, Shiro has renounced his Catholic faith and become an evil cult ...

The story is set in Nagasaki prefecture in Minami Shimabara city, the fabled origin of the Shimabara Rebellion that sent shockwaves through all of Japan in the early Edo period. It is also where a ...

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