Episode 351 - The Rising Sun Will Come to Us From Heaven, Part 3

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're going to talk about the heyday of Japanese Christianity during the Imperial era: the 1870s and 1880s, when the church, finally free of government restriction, began to grow. But behind that growth lurked a dangerous reality about the religion's relationship with the state.

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1:17.2	Hello and welcome to the history of Japan podcast, episode 351.
1:21.2	The Rising Sun will come to us from heaven, part three.
1:29.1	As we saw last week, the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate did not immediately improve things for Japan's surviving Christian community. If anything, it was not the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate did not immediately improve things for Japan's surviving Christian community. If anything, it made things slightly worse. An old military government where
1:36.0	the leadership viewed the Christian ban more through the lens of tradition and established
1:40.4	political practice was replaced by one that had a much larger contingent of
1:45.3	anti-Christian ideologues, and whose views toward the religion were colored both by
1:50.6	established superstitions about the evil religion, and by reverence towards the emperor
1:56.4	tied up with Shinto ideology.
1:59.1	What really turned the fate of Japanese Christians around was not the restoration itself, but
2:05.6	the 1871 Iwakura mission.
2:09.8	We haven't talked about the Iwakura mission in a bit, so here is a quick refresh.
2:14.7	In 1871, the Meiji government decided to dispatch a massive overseas embassy to the
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