A bit of History Portugal - Japan

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“The arrival of Francisco Xavier in Japan, as a missionary, is an historical landmark in the encounters between Europeans and Japanese. On April of 1549, Francisco Xavier arrived at Kagoshima in Kyushu (the land of Anjiro) with two Spanish Jesuits. Shortly after his arrival, he wrote to a friend in Goa, saying that from all the pagan people that he had met, the Japanese were the best. According to him, no other people could match them, because the Japanese were very kind and honest and didn’t have any bad thoughts in them. He also wrote that they had a good sense of humor and a surprisingly ambition for fame.”

and here is the original in Portuguese:




Forgive the History lesson ^^; (but I just love these things ^o^v)