Eradication of Missionaries

Foreigners have been coming to Japan for a while now. They've brought amazing inventions like clocks, tobacco, glasses, which is why we welcomed them so warmly. We've traded for their weapons, which are considerably more advanced than ours. Europeans have what they call "guns" and "cannons," which are weapons that can fire projectiles at speeds that can tear your enemies apart. Needless to say, using these is extremely effective in conquering enemy lands and taking control. We've also began reconstructing our castles to resemble those of Europeans. The arrival of foreigners has given us a chance to completely revamp our military doctrine and architecture. Therefore, we've received them with open arms for helping Japan advance so far.



However, along with the tradesmen, there have been missionaries as well. The first of them came in 1549 and succeeded in converting many of our people to their religion. His name, if I remember correctly, was something like Francis Xavier. Foreigners have such strange names.



Their religion is called Christianity, or Catholicism - it seems that some of them have split their beliefs, even though they worship the same God. Their God is apparently omnipotent and capable of absolving the sins of His followers if they truly repent. This is a far cry from our own Shinto religion, in which we worship figures of natures that contain gods within them.



The problems started when these missionaries began interfering with the system of Japanese politics. As a result, I purged my country of missionaries and issued permission to persecute those who had turned against their real gods and instead embraced a foreign God. Already, there has been a Kyushu uprising that we have had to suppress. Hopefully this will be the end of blasphemy in my country.