Japanese Religious Systems
Japan has traditional
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Japan has traditionally been home to a number of different religious groups, including Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shintoism (Fisher 165). There has been a small Christian presence in Japan since the seventeenth century when Christian (largely Roman Catholic) missionaries attempted to establish a foothold in this and other countries of Asia. One fictional description of this Christian missionary effort is found in the novel Silence by Shusaku Endo (7-8), who begin his story by pointing out that "not that the Church at Rome was ignorant of the straitened circumstances in which the Japanese mission was situated." In point of fact, Christian missionaries in Japan in the sixteenth century were targeted for persecution and "Christians all over the country were evicted from the households, and cruelly put to death" (Endo 8).Endo's novel describes the social, religious, and cultural environment in which Catholic priests such as his protagonist, Sebastian Rodrigues, attempt to establish
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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