Letter to pope from early Japan Christians stuns researchers | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

Researchers were stunned to come across a previously unknown letter of appreciation sent by Christians in Japan’s northeastern Tohoku region to the pope during the early Edo Period (1603-1867) ... in Florence that is, not the Vatican.

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