1941, IIRC.
Point well taken.
They are not a Christian nation.
Not hardly any left. But that matters not to the Faithful!
Japan hates ALL foreigners. Give them the big one and they will use it against us as payback. But then u can think of their relationship with other Asians as the same as the muzzies(think shia/sunni).
I think that Christianity has a real future in Asia, looking at the explosion currently taking place in China. Japan is the one that Christian missionaries have been trying to crack for over a century, and with the current crisis of a critically old population vs. a low young population, another lost decade is in the future. Materialism will struggle, faith will rise. I think a recent survey listed Japan as one of the nations in which atheism had decreased a little since the 90s (along with Germany, weirdly enough).
Christ wants Japan. They just resist a lot.