This southwest Japan city was filled with somber prayers June 3 to commemorate the victims of the major pyroclastic flow on ...

The Shimabara Rebellion was the largest revolt ever staged on Japanese soil. In January 2023, a great wooden statue of the Virgin Mary went on display at a facility built on a hill overlooking the ...

When it comes to bait for tourists, few places have anything quite as quirky as this town in Japan. Shimabara, near Nagasaki in the far south-west of the country, reels in visitors with fish ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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And, as you will see momentarily, so was Japan’s 17th-century Shimabara Rebellion―a wholly/holy Catholic affair. On Aug. 15, 1549, Spanish priests St. Francis Xavier, Fr. Cosme de Torres and Fr.

Nine Nepali and Sri Lankan students from the Shimabara International Japanese Language Institute worked together to carry one of the 41 decorated boats. After being paraded around the neighborhood ...