On the rural islands off the coast of Japan, a handful of believers practice a version of Christianity that has direct links ...

On Ikitsuki and other remote sections of Nagasaki prefecture, Hidden Christians still pray to these disguised objects. They ...

His talent and ambition had allowed him to rise from a humble peasant background. Building on Nobunaga’s achievements, Hideyoshi brought all of Japan under his control by about 1590. Two problems ...

During the Tokugawa era (A.D. 1603–1868), much of Japan was ruled by the country ... the daimyo were free to set tax rates on local peasants as they saw fit. This included the most important ...