Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion

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The Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion was a major 1637–1638 uprising of mostly Christian peasants and ronin in Japan’s Shimabara Peninsula and Amakusa Islands against heavy taxation and religious persecution, which ended in brutal suppression and reinforced the Tokugawa shogunate’s isolationist and anti-Christian policies.

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