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Silence is Golden One of [Shusaku] Endō’s most powerful novels, Chimmoku (1966; Silence), is a fictionalized account of Portuguese priests who traveled to Japan and the subsequent slaughter of their Japanese converts.  Catholic missionary activities in Japan began in earnest around 1549, but according to OnePeterFive, nearly five hundred years later, [o]nly 1% of the Japanese population, split evenly between Catholics and …

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