Talk:Christianity in Japan

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[edit] Christianity in Popular Culture

I feel it is important to stress the influences Christianity has on weddings. It is becoming increasingly more common to have a "Christian" wedding for the sake of an extravagant ceremony. Furthermore, much like Las Vegas, USA has Elvis; Japan has wedding chapels with Christian "priests". This "priests" are nothing more than government officials certified to oversee a marriage. Since I don't have credible research materials, and I don't live in Japan, would anyone be able to add some credible material? 63.161.86.254 (talk) 15:03, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Not to mention the influence on music and art. Some articles state that Gospel music is popular in Japan[1]. About the wedding thing, there is already a Wikipedia article on it: Western Style Weddings in Japan. A quick google search brought up a few articles as well: BBC News Faking it as a priest in Japan, Japanese prefer Christian weddings, "Christian" marriages increasingly the norm in Japan, Western Style Weddings in Japan --Azure Shrieker (talk) 15:47, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

While I think it is important to indicate how Christianity has impacted Japan (or Asia in general), I feel that the scope of the article should mainly be on actual Christian practice in Japan. As Azure Shrieker generously indicated, there is already an article on the Christian weddings. As far as music and art go, I'm not aware of an article on Christian popular media in Asia (or something along those lines). That could potentially be a very interesting article considering the secular nature of Asia. My only concern would be to limit the amount of original research. --JadeFox (talk) 13:56, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Suppression

surely some mention needs to be made of the bloody suppression of christianity under, i believe, the second tokugawa shogun, circa 1630.Toyokuni3 (talk) 20:12, 28 April 2008 (UTC)