Comments on: Photo-Documentary of Christian History in Japan

By: Stacked

Stacked — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:49:10 +0000

Japan was never 10% Christian. I’d love to see your proof.

By: camphortree

camphortree — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:57:13 +0000

Hello to #8 user-81,

http://www.pref.shimane.lg.jp/.....ku-pt.html

Here is a photo of some of the early arrived toxic waste that beached on one of Shimane coast this February, 2008.
The chemical remaining in the plastic tanks was concentrated HNO or H2O2. You can see the hangul letters stamped or printed on the containers.
The total number of these tanks amounts to 15,000 throughout the coast of the Sea of Japan so far this winter.
The dangerous garbage aside, volunteer help with clean-up from Korea will be welcome this summer as in the past years.

By: Bad Monkey

Bad Monkey — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:02:55 +0000

In addition to the locales listed and illustrated in the website on Kakure Christians, there are a number of interesting and several beautiful churches in fishing communities stretching along the Kyushu coast from Hirado down to Sasebo and the 99 Islands (Kujukushima), and another batch down in the Amakusa Islands south of the Shimabara Peninsula. Amakusa in particular was quite isolated until modern times, some communities were only really accessible by sea until as late as the 1960s. So Kakure Christians were able to hold out much longer down there. The fishing village of Kawanoura in southern Amakusa is hidden away in a spectacular fjord-like inlet and a small but lovely church dominates the settlement. Some day I’ll post some photos and captions with a link, but I am already playing way too much hooky from work just writing this!

By: frederick

frederick — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:46:23 +0000

I agree, Robert. Something that I’ve really noticed here - everyone likes being negative.

By: Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:55:42 +0000

It’s almost impressive that pictures of Japanese Catholic churches could become an opportunity to bash Korea.

By: natto

natto — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:13:24 +0000

The chemicals are used to disinfect cultivation nets after harvesting Nori sea weed(for sushi). Some Koreans feel guilty about the garbage on the Japanese seashore like some students at Busan University who visit every summer to Tsushima to clean up the shore with the islander.

“This is almost as good as the claim that Japanese are really Jewish.”
Why do you think so ? Most of the Japanese except uneducated ones do not believe in god with supernatural powers. Shintoism and Buddism are practiced only as rituals. In that sense, the Japanese are atheist.

By: sewing

sewing — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:32:07 +0000

Stacked: This isn’t like that. It is well documented that Jesuit missionaries started visiting Japan in the 1500s (led by Francis Xavier himself). In the mid 1600s, the Japanese government cut off virtually all contact with foreigners, but the Catholic influence remained, and became increasingly indigenized (merged with local traditions) the longer Japanese Catholics were isolated from the outside world.

By: Stacked

Stacked — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:20:18 +0000

This is almost as good as the the claim that Japanese are really jewish.

By: user-81

user-81 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:56:38 +0000

#4, #7, are there pictures of the acid-filled bottles that had Hangul writing? I’d like to know what they were.

By: arthjm

arthjm — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:27:57 +0000

#4: Ah, the small mindedness of you guys (and I don’t mean that in a racial/national way) is amusing! Be glad that it washed up on shore so that the culprits can be heavily fined for dumping garbage into the sea. When Japanese companies do it (don’t think that they haven’t! As well as many other nations), it just collects in that floating garbage island in the sea, which no one will probably care about till we start getting mutant whales or something. And hey, at the very least, the first report on this was actually done in a Korean paper I recall, so at least they’re getting the info out to the public.