基督教在日本初期传播缓慢的原因

Reasons why Christianity Propagates Slowly in Initial Stage in Japan

日本在1853年被迫开国之后,积极吸收西方科技文化,但是作为西方文化的一种重要内容和标志——基督教在日本却难以传播。其中固然有日本统治者之前力行海禁,严厉禁止西方传教士深入日本传教的原因,但日本作为儒家文化辐射区及其固有的神道宗教、佛教经过百年的融合已经成为相互补充的思想体系,儒学的现世、功利性等也起到了很大的作用。

Japan has absorbed western scientific and technological culture actively afferforcing to found state since 1853, but regarded as a kind of important content and sign of western culture. But Christianity is difficult to propagate. The reasons are the following. Japanese has banned maritime trade or intercourse with foreign countries, Japan has radiated ad a Confucian culture district, Buddhism has become ideological system, and the practice and the life, utility of Confucianism, etc have plaid very big roles, too.