Once the ban on Christianity was lifted, in the [[Bakumatsu Period]], the Jesuit order re-entered Japan, and retains a degree of presence today; [[Sophia University]] in Tokyo, founded in 1913 at the request of the Pope as the first Jesuit university in Japan, is generally regarded as among the top three private universities in the city. | Once the ban on Christianity was lifted, in the [[Bakumatsu Period]], the Jesuit order re-entered Japan, and retains a degree of presence today; [[Sophia University]] in Tokyo, founded in 1913 at the request of the Pope as the first Jesuit university in Japan, is generally regarded as among the top three private universities in the city. |