Japanese writer Endō Shūsaku (1923–96) became a Roman Catholic when he was about 10 years old with encouragement from his mother and aunt. His conversion made him a religious minority in Buddhist Japan. Although he would later write many books themed around Christianity, including the novel Silence (1966), he also described his baptism as being like “an arranged marriage” and his faith as “like a suit of Western clothes that just doesn’t fit.”
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