The observations of a Japanese man of samurai descent visiting the US, writing under the pen name of the Japanese samurai who began the unification of Japan in the sixteenth century, are taking twitter by storm. His observations on life here are usually funny, sometimes moving and often insightful. If a book by him comes of this I will be sure to buy it.
Nobunaga was one of the most prominent “Christian Friendly” Daimyo of the time, especially when compared to his successors. This likely wasn’t due to personal conviction: Nobunaga seems to have been indifferent to religion personally, but he loved western technology and wanted to see the Buddhist monks get taken down a peg, and welcome Portuguese Jesuits was helpful for both causes. A perennial alternate history question is “if Nobunaga had not been killed, would Christianity have flourished in Japan?”