Through essays on its key players, detailed original maps, and a narrative drawn from contemporary Italian and Latin sources never before translated into Englis

Following the pioneering work of Francis Xavier in establishing Christianity in Japan, his successor Alessandro Valignano, decided to send a legation to Europe

In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys to Europe. Until the arrival of the embassy in Europ

A new interpretation of the Jesuit mission to New France is here proposed by using, for comparison and contrast, the earlier Jesuit experience in Japan. In orde

In this first major study of the region in English, the author examines the key themes of Kyushu’s history from earliest times – the cultural interaction wi