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Christianity arrived in Japan in 1549 when Jesuits first set foot in Kagoshima Initial attempts to spread the religion were met with confusion however through employing various methods they began to see success

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The St Ignatius Church Japanese 聖イグナチオ教会 is a Catholic church located in Kōjimachi district of Tokyo Japan Also known as the Kōjimachi Catholic Church it was established with its current name on April 17 1949 and is dedicated to Saint Ignatius of Loyola The dedication ceremony was offered by Archbishop Peter Tatsuo

Christianity was introduced to Japan by the Jesuits such as the Spaniard St Francis Xavier and the Italian Alessandro Valignano Portuguese Catholics founded the port of Nagasaki considered at its founding to be an important Christian center in the Far East though this distinction is now obsolete

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Catechists Women and the Jesuits in Japan Edited by Thomas Worcester SJ College of the Holy Cross Massachusetts Book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Jesuits Online publication 30 August 2017 Chapter DOI https doi org 10 1017 9781139032780 002

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Jesuit missions in Japan had been in operation ever since Francis Xavier 39 s arrival in the country in 1549 so when Valignano made the first of his three extended visits to Japan in 1579 Jesuits already had extensive experience in that country Valignano proceeded to forge principles and practices which

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The meeting took place just days before the Dec 3 feast of St Francis Xavier the Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to Japan in the mid 1500s The Christian community he founded in Nagasaki was particularly strong and the faith spread there until it was outlawed under the Edo shogunate in 1614

While arguably imperfect and incomplete Jesuit missionary efforts to adapt the Christian faith to Japanese culture rather than to import a fully grown foreign tree and forcibly transplant it into Japanese soil had somehow succeeded

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On 15 August 1549 the first Jesuit missionary Francisco Xavier 1506 1552 arrived at Kagoshima on the southern coast of one of Japan s four main islands At the time the country was fraught with civil wars and was divided into small territories governed by their local lords

In this exclusive interview conducted in Rome on Nov 9 the Japanese Jesuit identified six main challenges facing Japan today the increasing gap between rich and poor nationalism the

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At the heart of the life of a Jesuit is living with Jesus following the example of Ignatius It is about thinking like Jesus feeling like Jesus having the values of Jesus and cherishing what He valued So what kind of values did Jesus have and what were his priorities

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Decades in the making Martin Scorsese s Silence tells the story of Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in 17th century Japan Although the film is based on a fictional novel by the Japanese author Shusaku Endo many of the events and people depicted in Silence are real

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On 5 February 1597 twenty six Christians six Franciscan missionaries three Japanese Jesuits and seventeen Japanese laymen including three young boys were executed by crucifixion in Nagasaki These individuals were raised on crosses and then pierced through with spears

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My topic is a close look at Japan and the writings of the island country by the Jesuits as members of the Soci ety of Jesus were known in the 16th and 17th centuries Certainly St Francis Xavier 1506 1552 would have been

Seventy five years ago on Aug 6 1945 a B 29 Superfortress named the Enola Gay struck out across the Pacific and dropped a uranium 235 atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan

In this essay I survey some of the more valuable discussions on the topic of the Jesuits Japan mission while tracing the development of research in economics literature the sciences musicology the visual arts archaeology and global studies European writers provide the major early histories of the Jesuit Japan mission

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With approximately 20 000 members worldwide the Jesuits are engaged in a wide range of services to bring the gospel to the modern world such as missions education prayer and spiritual direction writing and publishing

When Toyotomi Hideyoshi issued the Bateren edict the Jesuits in Japan led by Coelho planned armed resistance At first they sought help from Kirishitan daimyōs but the daimyōs refused Then they called for a deployment of reinforcements from their homeland and its colonies But this plan was vetoed by Valignano

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Jesuits need to make evangelization a central concern of the Church and make specific efforts in making clear policies in the missionary and pastors of the Church to which members are dispatched

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