Nagasaki Junshin Catholic University Museum

This small museum at Nagasaki Junshin Catholic University was built around the research of Professor Kataoka Yakichi, a specialist in Nagasaki's Christian history who spent decades assembling primary documents and objects. The collection includes a Jesuit annual report from 1614, government signboards prohibiting Christianity, and fumi-e tablets used during interrogations to identify believers. Many items relate to the Fourth Urakami Crackdown of 1867 to 1873, the final major persecution of Japan's underground Christian communities. The museum functions primarily as a scholarly reference library, but is open to visitors who want a serious, document-based account of that history.