>>510916220Keep in mind that Nagasaki had the largest Catholic church and presence in all of Asia, then the US bombed it. The Japanese were told by Calvinists for years that Christianity would conquer them, they had a policy known roughly as 'better Turkish than popish' as well. They would construct fake identities and do hollow 'cultural' protectionism while expanding their market. When Japan was being influenced by Prussia and Germany that old Calvinist rhetoric about jews and Christianity again was pushed in Japan. When they didn't listen then the US bombed the rest of Catholicism right out of Japan. It's insane how many Christians they had left even after 200 years of 'isolation' and by isolation I mean letting the Dutch control all inbound trade, their education system, and become the premier medical practitioners in Edo Japan.