Kryptonthenoblegas t1_j58xkr1 wrote on January 21, 2023 at 6:04 AM

Reply to comment by AngusLynch09 in TIL that during the Edo period in Japan Catholicism was outlawed and groups of Japanese catholics had secret rooms in their houses and they made statues of the Virgin Mary and other saints that would look like Buddhist statues by jeanleonino

I'm not sure how true it is but apparently prior to the ban catholicism was growing at a very rapid rate in japan, to the point every province had a catholic population of some kind. So I guess if you assume this would continue for some time, Japan would end up having a sizeable catholic population.