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what was the attitude of japanese shoguns toward christian europeans in japan in the earky seventeenth century

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In the sixteenth century, many Japanese had converted to Christianity, which Japanese rulers thought upset the social order. As a result, several shoguns prohibited Christianity and strictly punished it.
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