A Missionary's View of Japan": "Why have you come to Japan?" is a question I am often asked, to which I make the customary answer, "I have come as a Catholic missionary to Japan." But that isn't enough. I have to explain what it means to me as an English Jesuit to be both a missionary in Japan and a professor of Sophia University. Then I find I can explain both my reasons in coming and my experiences after having come to Japan (over a period of fifty years) in the form of an epic in prose, in answer to various particular questions.