A Nestorian Japan?

There is apparently evidence of Christianity having come to Japan long before Francis Xavier, in the form of Nestorian Christianity (see here, though I can't vouch for the accuracy of the claims made there). While historically it obviously didn't exactly take charge of the Japanese state... well, what if it did? Differing court politics in Tang China and Asuka period Japan could have lead to the Nestorians making deeper inroads in Japan.

Suppose that Nestorian Christianity winds up taking the spot that Buddhism did historically; what are the likely long term consequences?
 
It was based on the fact that because the West couldn't wrap their heads around the fact that Japan was industrialising so quickly, they had to justify it by including Christianity into it. Same for those arguing Japan is part of the Lost Tribes.
Parallel idea goes to Ethiopian ruins being declared evidence of "Ancient Greek colonisation" of Africa.
 
It was based on the fact that because the West couldn't wrap their heads around the fact that Japan was industrialising so quickly, they had to justify it by including Christianity into it. Same for those arguing Japan is part of the Lost Tribes.
Parallel idea goes to Ethiopian ruins being declared evidence of "Ancient Greek colonisation" of Africa.

I'm guessing 19th Century Westerners just juxtapose Western civilization into any exception that turns up. :V

But yeah, the distance and isolation would have made Japanese Nestorianism heavily syncretic, a parallel to OTL's Kakure Kirishitans. If Roman Catholic tradition could become so muddled in the native culture without regular contact with a massive, highly organized church, it's hard to see a much smaller one fare much better at preserving it.
 

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There is apparently evidence of Christianity having come to Japan long before Francis Xavier, in the form of Nestorian Christianity (see here, though I can't vouch for the accuracy of the claims made there). While historically it obviously didn't exactly take charge of the Japanese state... well, what if it did? Differing court politics in Tang China and Asuka period Japan could have lead to the Nestorians making deeper inroads in Japan.

Suppose that Nestorian Christianity winds up taking the spot that Buddhism did historically; what are the likely long term consequences?
This is the ultimate goal of the thread below: an eventual spread of Church of the East "Nestorian" Christianity to China and Japan. I am interested to hear your views.
 
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