Nagasaki looks forward to the visit by the pope

Pope Francis intends to begin his official tour to Japan from Nagasaki. This is only appropriate considering how it is the city where Christianity was first introduced to the nation and where, about 500 years later, there still lingers the blood-drenched symbolism, political and religious both.

Mitsuaki Takami, the Japanese Archbishop, stated how the Christian ancestors were scrutinized and oppressed and how they then went on to suff....