Christianity in Japan was outlawed by the mid-1600s.

True

False

True because the prevailing view is that Christianity was brought to Japan by Jesuit missionary Saint Xavier in 1549. It spread in the second half of the 16th century and was embraced by people who wanted a new kind of spiritualism and by merchants who wanted access to Western trade and technology. In the late 1600s, many Christians were killed and the religion was banned.