[DOC] [TLE] Christianity in Japan - Wikipedia [PAR] Christianity in Japan is among the nation's minority religions. Fewer than one 
percent of the .... In 1570 there were 20 Catholic missionaries in Japan. ... He 
later founded the Hepburn School, which developed into Meiji Gakuin University, 
... of organized Christianity in Japan was the arrival of the Portuguese Catholics 
in 1549. [DOC] [TLE] History of the Catholic Church in Japan - Wikipedia [PAR] Christian missionaries arrived with Francis Xavier and the Jesuits in the 1540s 
and briefly .... Xavier reached Japan on 27 July 1549, with Anjir and three other 
Jesuits, but it ... He favored the Jesuit missionary Lus Fris and generally 
tolerated .... Christians Protasio Arima and Paulo Okamoto were named as 
principals in an... [DOC] [TLE] Christianity in Japan - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] Christianity was introduced to Japan by Roman Catholic Jesuit missionaries who 
... Christian thought has been a powerful influence on the development of 
modern Japan. ... On August 15, 1549, the Jesuits [Francis Xavier|Francisco 
Xavier]], Father ... church in Kyoto in 1576, although he never converted to 
Christianity. [DOC] [TLE] Saint Francis Xavier | Christian missionary | Britannica.com [PAR] The greatest Roman Catholic missionary of modern times, who was ... in the 
establishment of Christianity in India, the Malay Archipelago, and Japan. ... Using 
a small catechism he had translated into the native Tamil with the help ... 15, 
1549, a Portuguese ship bearing Francis, the newly baptized Anjiro, and .... 
Introduction. [DOC] [TLE] Xavier's Legacies: Catholicism in Modern Japanese ... - UBC Press [PAR] American Missionaries, Christian Oyatoi, and Japan, 1859-73. Hamish Ion ... 
Introduction: Catholicism, Modernity, and Japanese Culture / 1. Kevin M. Doak ... 
Catholicism reached Japan in 1549 when Francis Xavier, SJ, landed at Kago- ... 
with the help of a native Japanese convert, Anjir (Yajir), he translated into. [DOC] [TLE] The Jesuits in Japan [PAR] Marco Polo in his Travels refers to the millions of Christians he found in China. ... 
The Jesuits first entered Japan around 1549 and were warmly received by the ... 
be able to imitate Spain, simply because they had no Catholic missionaries. ... 
The time for opening the first-named port is immediately on signing this treaty; the
... [DOC] [TLE] History of Christianity in Japan - Tofugu [PAR] Jan 8, 2015 ... Christians in Kyushu: A History How Jesus was introduced, accepted, and ... Only 
six years later, the first Christian missionary came to Japan. ... Xavier became a 
founding member of the Society of Jesus (better known as the Jesuits). ... This 
time he pulled out all the stops, dressing in a fine silk cassock and... [DOC] [TLE] St. Francis Xavier Jesuit missionary to Asia and Japan in the 16th ... [PAR] introduced Christianity to Japan in 1549 ... and at the beginning of the 16th 
century which was the first century of the Modern Era and of the Globalization of 
trade. The story of the patron saint of Christian missions to Asia and Japan is set 
in a ... from (1520-1566) at the time of its greatest expansion and conquest into 
Europe,... [DOC] [TLE] Saint Francis Xavier and the Roots of Christianity in Japan | Nippon ... [PAR] Aug 27, 2015 ... Arriving in Japan in 1549, Jesuit priest Francis Xavier played a key role in the 
early ... the remote Kysh island as it developed into a center for Christianity in 
Japan. ... The mission in Kagoshima was left to Japan's first Christian convert, 
Anjir ... When he was 12, he became an assistant to a Catholic priest,... [DOC] [TLE] The Jesuit Peril [PAR] Xavier landed at Kagoshima in 1549; and by 1581 the Jesuits had upwards of ... 
in his "Review of the Introduction of Christianity into China and Japan," quotes 
from .... Of Jesuit intrigues in Japan he must have had ample knowledge- several 
of ..... Had not the Gods and the Buddhas been called devils by these 
missionaries... [DOC] [TLE] HISTORY OF THE JESUITS [PAR] Recuperating in the ancestral castle at Loyola, he finds himself without

Question: Called greatest Catholic missionary of modern times, he introduced Christianity into Japan in 1549
Answer: Francis Xavier