Effort to see what is invisible

I have been living in Nagoya, where I am a full-time professor in a catholic university. I teach mainly the history of Christianity. (…) As a historian, I’m specialised in the history of the Catholic Church in Japan, especially the era of before the Second World War. What follows is one of my most recent discoveries. There has always been a hidden and unseen presence in the history of the Church.
Specifically, it is the Korean Catholics who lived before the war. During the Japanese colonial occupation of the Korean peninsula, many Koreans went to Japan to be enslaved or simply to survive. There were those who were originally Catholic and those who converted to Catholicism in Japan. I eventually found out that sometimes it was a group of Korean Catholics who became the seed of a new parish. Even in some long-established “Japanese” parishes, more than half of the people attending Sunday Mass were Koreans.
Until now, I always thought that only European missionaries and Japanese Christians were the main actors in the pre-war history of the Catholic Church in Japan. No, I was wrong. Those people I missed when I saw …. They were right in the middle of the history of the Church in Japan.
Those parts of history that were hidden and invisible should be brought to the fore so that they become visible to people….I feel that this is the mission that God has entrusted to me.