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Southwestern Japan students attend papal audience

Junior high school students from Minamishimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, pose for a photo after attending a general audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Oct. 23, 2024, clad in costumes simulating four Japanese teenagers sent to Rome as emissaries of a Catholic landlord in the 1580s. The southwestern Japan city, where the 16th-century emissaries studied at a Jesuit school, has sent delegations of local students since 2012, with the 2024 cohort being the first after the coronavirus pandemic.

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Cross stands on ruins of Hara Castle

NAGASAKI, Japan - A man walks around a cross standing on the premises of the Hara Castle remains in Minamishimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, as seen in this photo taken on Sept. 6, 2013. The site is part of the churches and Christian heritage sites in Nagasaki and Kumamoto prefectures endorsed by a Japanese government panel as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site candidate.

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Pope gives audience to 8 Japan students

ROME, Italy - Pope Benedict XVI (R) gives an audience near Rome to Yoneyuki Fujiwara (front), mayor of Minamishimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Aug. 8, 2012. The pope also gave an audience to a delegation of eight Japanese junior high school students who were sent from Minamishimabara as a commemorative event.

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Food processor raided on suspicion of false labeling

NAGASAKI, Japan - Police investigators raid food processor Cassey Co.'s plant in Minamishimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Nov. 21 over allegations that the company mixed foreign-grown vegetables with domestic ones and sold them as purely domestic.

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Food processor raided on suspicion of false labeling

NAGASAKI, Japan - Police investigators raid food processor Cassey Co.'s plant in Minamishimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Nov. 21 over allegations that the company mixed foreign-grown vegetables with domestic ones and sold them as purely domestic. (Kyodo)

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Cross stands on ruins of Hara Castle

NAGASAKI, Japan - A man walks around a cross standing on the premises of the Hara Castle remains in Minamishimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, as seen in this photo taken on Sept. 6, 2013. The site is part of the churches and Christian heritage sites in Nagasaki and Kumamoto prefectures endorsed by a Japanese government panel as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site candidate. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay participant runs in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Minamishimabara, southwestern Japan, on May 7, 2021.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay participant runs in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Minamishimabara, southwestern Japan, on May 7, 2021.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay participant runs in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Minamishimabara, southwestern Japan, on May 7, 2021.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay participant runs in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Minamishimabara, southwestern Japan, on May 7, 2021.

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Japan's focus on Christian persecution helped green light UNESCO site

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in Minamishimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on April 26, 2018 shows the remains of Hara Castle, one of the 12 "Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region" which have been awarded World Heritage status. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo