Tag: Futaro Yamada
October 1, 2015 · 0 comments
Book Review: Holy Ghosts
by Jonathan Clements. There are, famously, more Christians in Iraq than there are in Japan. That’s in spite of a flourishing of interest among the samurai lords after 1549, some of whom converted to Christianity, took Christian names like Francisco and Augustin, and welcomed the exotic foreign contacts of “barbarian” missionaries. For a time, Nagasaki […]