[AmericanInTokyo]

Nagasaki had and probably does have one of the largest concentrations of CHRISTIANS in all of Japan. That IS a fact.

In fact, Christianity was sealed in Nagasaki in the blood of martyrs. On a hill not far from the epicenter of the blast of Nagasaki, is a hill where about 20 Japanese were crucified on orders of Tokugawa (the Shogun at the time) for not renouncing Christianity. In that group, were little Japanese children, too, each nailed to their own smaller crosses overlooking the city.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Twenty-six Franciscan and Jesuit missionaries and Japanese converts crucified together by order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Following their arrests, they were taken to the public square of Meako to the city's principal temple. They each had a piece of their left ear cut off, and then paraded from city to city for weeks with a man shouting their crimes and encouraging their abuse. The priests and brothers were accused of preaching the outlawed faith of Christianity, the laity of supporting and aiding them. They were each repeatedly offered freedom if they would renounce Christianity. They each declined.

1597. Although I had the shogunate wrong. It was Toyotomi who ordered this.

[VOA]

“
Nagasaki had and probably does have one of the largest concentrations of
CHRISTIANS in all of Japan. That IS a fact.
“

Yep.
The only reason I had a clue about this (before the birth of the
Internet and FR) was a friend that moved to Japan to be a missionary.

When I heard the Islamics braying like jack@$$es about Dubya using
the term “Crusade”, I said they must be ignorant that when given the
choice...we nuked the center of Christianity in Japan.

To some degree because Henry Stimson decided to strike Kyoto from
the target list because he admired it (he honeymooned there decades earlier).
And partly because of the fickle finger of fate sending clouds
over an earlier target.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urakami_Cathedral

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_L._Stimson