Posted on 09/24/2008 11:40:39 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Taro Aso, a Catholic conservative, takes over as Japan's prime minister with a vow to bolster his country's lackluster economy. The 68-year-old Aso, a former Olympic skeetshooter, is Japan's first Catholic leader.
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There’s something you don’t see every day.
Fascinating.
Just wow. God bless him!
Who would have ever thunk it?
Barriers are falling all over the world.
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The Japanese are tolerant of Christians. Better than the Liberals in the USA!
An interesting sidenote about the bombing of either Hiroshima or Nagasaki is that the bombing wiped out Japan's largest Catholic community.
I wonder what apartments rent for there?
Several members of the Imperial family are said to be Christians, but they don’t advertise it.
IIRC, Hirohito’s mother (and one brother) were also Christians.
My only concern about this is that conservative means something different in Japan than it might in the U.S.
In Japan, the War factions of the last century were
considered conservatives, and I have heard of those
who advocate a more warlike attitude toward their own
government and the U.S. as conservative.
So I don’t know if this is a good thing or not.
Nagasaki had a role in the evangelisation of Japan similar to that of Canterbury in the early English church.
Wikipedia has a lot of negative stuff on him.
He must be a GOOD GUY.
Does this mean “Japan’s Hillary” lost?
Funny, I hadn’t heard anything. /s
Amazing, considering just how FEW Catholics there are in the country.
It was Nagasaki.
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