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Nagasaki Sites Associated with Endō Shūsaku’s “Silence”

Endō Shūsaku’s 1966 masterpiece Silence wrestles with fundamental aspects of Christianity, along with persecution of missionaries and believers in seventeenth-century Japan. This series visits locations connected with the book and Christianity in Nagasaki Prefecture.

(Banner photo: The former Nokubi Church on Nozaki Island in the Gotō Islands, Nagasaki Prefecture. © Amano Hisaki.)