Joam Yama (c. 1566 – 29 September 1633) was a Japanese Jesuit born in Tsu Province, at the center of Japan’s main island. He served as the cleric of the Church of Yanagawa in Chikugo Province in Kyusyu. He was deported to Portuguese Macau in 1614, but six years later returned to Japan. He engaged in missionary work primarily in Oshu with Joam Mattheus Adami, a priest. However, he was captured in Aizu and sent to Edo (now Tokyo) in 1629, and was then martyred at the gallows and the pit (ana-tsurushi) in Edo on 29 September 1633.
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29 September 1633 (aged 67)
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