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 ...

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 ...

Residents of Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Sunday paid tribute to the 43 people claimed by the pyroclastic flow triggered by the eruption of Mount Unzen in 1991. Some 100 people, including ...

The city of Shimabara in Nagasaki Prefecture on Wednesday commemorated the 43 victims of a massive pyroclastic flow that 29 years ago spewed from Mount Unzen's Fugen Peak. At a memorial service ...

In 1637 a rebellion broke out in the province of Shimabara, in the south of the country. It was a peasants’ revolt, following years of bad harvests in which the local lord had refused to lower ...