The Shimabara Peninsula is known for its Christian connections, including the Shimabara Rebellion of 1637, led by Christians against the shogunate. It was also subsequently a site for torture and ...

Shimabara had harbored Catholics since at least 1562, and Amakusa since 1566 or earlier. Catholicism in Shimabara had been nurtured by Arima Harunobu, the feudal lord who, ...

A Lenten Sacrifice in Shimabara. In his hatred for Christ, the Shogun Iemitsu acted as if he were possessed — and the Christians of Japan felt his wrath.

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.

SHIMABARA, Nagasaki Prefecture--Centuries ago, the sight of Shimabara Castle outraged peasants to the point of revolt over the high taxes they paid to build it.

The Shimabara Rebellion. In Our Time. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1637-8 Christian uprising in Japan, which led the Shogun to close the country to foreigners for the next 250 years.

I am in Shimabara, a relaxed and laidback castle town in the Nagasaki prefecture of Kyushu in Japan, known as the 'City of Springs' with more than 60 springs.