Researchers unearth ancient Japanese bible translation OSAKA -- A 400-year-old Japanese translation of biblical literature has been found at a university in the old Polish city of Krakow, a researcher has told the Mainichi. Courtesy of Jagiellorian University. The Japanese translation is written below the Latin text. One of the oldest known translations of the bible in Japanese, several paragraphs were translated by a Japanese mission of boys that left the country in 1582 and arrived in Rome three years later to receive an audience by Pope Gregory XIII. "European countries that received the mission showed great interest and numerous...