journey

Problem hidden Christians in Nagasaki.
Its Judgment was entrusted from the office of Nagasaki to Kyoto.
　
"Anti-establishment forces.
They may become it."
They might thought so.
　
New government not long after the establishment.
East Japan was still the sphere of influence of Tokugawa.　
　
"Central figures should to the death penalty.
Those who remain,They become all banishment from Nagasaki to throughout west Japan.
Their right to life-and-death power.　
It is given to the lord of its land."
Kido of Choshu proposed so.

”It is too harsh.”
But Komatsu of Satsuma opposed it.
　
"All hidden Christians become all banishment from Nagasaki to throughout west Japan."
Eventually this had officially decided like this.

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More than 3000 people.
They had been separated from their family.
And they had been banishment from Nagasaki to throughout west Japan.
They were tortured numerous there.
　
About three years later.
This had been reported in Europe and the United States as a human rights issue.
This persecution was over easily by it.
　
After this，hidden Christians called this persecution ”Journey”.