In addition, common people who had long believed that Christianity was "Jasumon" (Heresy) also raised a voice of protest against the lifting of the ban out of fear of Christianity, and due to these circumstances the Japanese government was not willing to remove the ban at all.
また長年キリスト教を『邪宗門』と信じてきた一般民衆の間にもキリスト教への恐怖から解禁に反対する声も上がったため、日本政府は一切解禁しようとしなかった。