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How temple records helped Japan hunt hidden Christians
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Bureaucracy is a terrifying weapon in the hands of a paranoid military dictatorship. To eradicate foreign influence and crush the Kakure Kirishitan (Hidden Christians), the Tokugawa shogunate forced every single Japanese citizen to register at a local Buddhist temple, using these religious ledgers as a ruthless national surveillance database.
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