Comments by "" (@MayaTheDecemberGirl) on "Do Japanese Believe in God?" video.

  1. It's interesting to read about Japanese saints and beatified - like Satoko Kitahara (her beatification peocess is ongoing) or Ukon Takayama (beatified by Pope Francis in 2017). Or about another Japanese Catholic, Takashi Nagai. Also about Polish saint (known by many Catholics, in many countries) Maksymilian Kolbe - who came to Japan in 1930 and spent six years there. He established in Nagasaki a Fransiscian monastery (called Mugenzai no Sono - The Garden of the Immaculata), still existing. To build a monastery he chose a place on slopes of a nearby mountain Hikosan (although it was said then them it's not a good place for that). But thanks to such decision the monastery survived, not destroyed, the atom bomb attack. After the attack and after the war also the Franciscians were helping the victims of the war, orphans, homeless, sick etc. Saint Maksymilian Kolbe himself came back in 1936 to Poland - he is worlwide known for giving his life voluntarily for another prisoner in Auschwitz German Nazi concentration camp, where he was murdered (in a hunger bunker) on 14th August 1941 (the prisoner he sacrificed his life for, thanks to him, survived whole war). And another Fransiscian friar who worked for his whole life in Japan, was friar Zeno Żebrowski - he came to Japan in 1930 together with saint Maksymilian Kolbe, but he stayed, and when the war ended he was organizing orphanages and housing for homeless people in Japan, the victims of the war, he was also cooperating with above mentioned Satoko Kitahara (who is going to be beatified by Pope). He died in Tokyo in 1982.
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  2. LMAO. Like before the centuries when all these religions existed, there was no war, no genocide, no massacres, no horrible atrocities on thousands of people. Learn history. By the way, as we all know, Japanese during the WW II were also committing horrible atrocities on millions, so it had nothing to do with above mentioned religions.
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  3. LOL. Catholicims is Christianity. Within Christianity there are many more different Churches, as we all know.
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  4.  @mapinoita279  That's interesting. Which town is this? I've just checked in Internet and found information about Francis Xavier statues in two towns in Kiusiu, one called Oita and the other Kagoshima. Are the sweets named after him good? And are there some more Catholics there, some community of them? There's an YouTuber from my country whose half Japanese (his father moved to Poland many years ago) and visits his Japanese grandpa, who lives in Kiusiu, and his Japanese family are Catholics.
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