How Does Hamilton Differ In The Root Cause Of The Portuguese Expulsion From Japan?

Most importantly, though, the two authors differ in the root cause of the Portuguese expulsion from Japan. Hamilton makes his opinion very clear in the first paragraph of his report: “Bungo is a Province of Japan, and was honored with the name of a kingdom, but about the year of 1655 it lost its title and most of its inhabitants, for being too zealous in promoting Christianity by barbarous ways” (Hamilton 299). Therefore, in Hamilton’s point of view, Christianity is the clearly the main reason for the failure of the Portuguese to settle permanently in Japan. He then goes on to describe the many failures of Christianity and and, though he discusses trade, it is Christianity that gets the brunt force of his report. Kaempfer, on the other hand,