During the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries East Asia has witnessed ruthless persecution of Christianity. While the Christian faith has occasionally prevailed upon certain, political or social, conditions in each state of the region, most of the time the religion has suffered extreme repression. Its propagation has been banned in the eighteenth and nineteenth century; and, more critically, papal suppression of the Jesuits in 1773 has demotivated the missionaries and discouraged their activities to the great extent. In result, the development of Christian art in both China and Japan has fallen relatively stagnant over the period. A new historical turn rose in East Asia with the Opium War in China (1840) and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan (1858). Since these events, the Western art has resumed an interrupted f low to Asia and made a hardly negligible contribution even to non-Christian art. This essay examines the way in which the persecution came to halt in the modern East Asia countries and how the social rehabilitation of the religion has impacted the art world.