History of Japan

Episode 422 - The City on the Edge of Forever, Part 1

34 min • 21 januari 2022

This week, we're covering the founding of Japan's most unusual city: Nagasaki, unique among major Japanese cities in being founded under the impetus of the Jesuit order. Why did Jesuit missionaries want a port of their own, and who did they find to give it to them?

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