Anonymous3: Yeah the Japanese were big on crucifixion even before christian missionaries showed up. When they found out that these guys worshipped a guy who died on a cross it seems they considered it so offensive (as well as counter-authoritarian) that they crucified a whole lot of christian missionaries. Well, that's actually a vast over-simplification. Missionaries were welcomed in Japan early on, with some persecution of one religious order manipulated by another to maintain their monopoly. When the Japanese did goes nuts with kill-every-priest violence it seems it was as much reactionism to western influences as anything. (Don't read into that that I mean that made it sort of O.K.)
Anonymous4(3): As lorik mentioned the spearing was the execution. The cross was just to put the body on display, as an example, grisly trophy, instrument of intimidation, visible proof of a feared criminal having been dealt with, or whatever. The practice (or variations thereof) was more or less independently invented by a variety of cultures. It took those evil pricks the Romans to think of just leaving the person up there to die.
evilpika: Actually, crucifixion was a really common form of execution around Rome at the time it happened to Jesus anyway. It wasn't like it was a special torture just for him. The symbol of the church is essentially an ancient electric chair.
Anonymous12: GAGR, I think they were customs agents. That might seem odd since Japan was united in the era the show was supposed to portray. I think they did do that though to control travel from province to province. Citizens traveling on the road would have needed to present their passport.
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