Ban on Christianity in early 1600s,the focus of film called Silence, forced converts to practise in secret, or main to a localised form of the religion still practised by a few dozen people todayAt low tide,Shigetsugu Kawakami can just approximately do out the “forbidden” rock from his home overlooking the beach in Neshiko, a tiny village on Hirado island in southern Japan.
According to verbal testimony, and at least 70 villagers were taken there and beheaded in the early 17th century. Their crime had been to convert to Christianity. “When we were children,the adults told us that if we climbed on to the rock the village would be cursed,” said Kawakami.
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Source: theguardian.com