My Inquirer column today--sorry its not on Halloween or All Saints or on All Souls Day.
http://opinion.inquirer.net/64449/japan-in-philippine-history
Japan in Philippine historyopinion.inquirer.net
Hasekura Tsunenaga was a Japanese samurai who was received in Mexico, Spain, the Vatican, and the Philippines as a Spanish ambassador in a romantic seven-year journey. He was given an audience by King Philip III in Madrid, was baptized at the Real Monasterio de Descalzas Reales where the Duke Lerma…
Published on October 31, 2013 17:09