Episode 349 - The Rising Sun Will Come to Us From Heaven, Part 1

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week, we're turning our attention to Christianity in Japan after the "Christian Century." Despite its status as a minority religion in Japan, Christianity has had a major historical impact on the country. How did this happen? We'll start this week by looking at the Christian persecutions which destroyed the communities built by European missionaries in the 1500s.

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0:46.3	revisiting it to prepare. It's the first piece of philosophy I ever read in my life, and I still
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1:03.5	Go to audible trial.com slash Japan to claim your copy. Hello and welcome to the history of Japan podcast, Episode 349, The Rising Sun will
1:27.3	come to us from Heaven, Part 1.
1:30.8	Last week we talked about the history of Islam in Japan.
1:34.6	This week, we turned to the other Abrahamic faith with a billion plus followers to its name.
1:39.6	It's time to talk about the history of Christianity in Japan, and this is going to be a lot longer.
1:46.1	Where we had one episode on Islam, Christianity has a longer, more complex, and frankly just
1:52.0	better documented history with Japan, and so I'm expecting something like four episodes for this.
1:58.7	And really, I want to say our focus is the last four centuries or so of
2:03.2	Christian history in Japan, because as those of you who have been listening for a while now,
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