This chapter investigates how different iterations of Endō Shūsaku’s historical fiction Silence (1966)—one of the most prominent and influential popular cultural texts that have shaped the narrative of Christian persecution in seventeenth-century Japan—have drawn various forms of engagement with the past both within and beyond the country. As a novel questioning the (in)compatibility of ‘Japanese culture and Western Christianity’, Silence has elicited different practices and discourses on the relationship between ‘Japan and the West’, both domestically and cross-culturally. Particularly focusing on the popular reception of Silence through the Endō Shūsaku Literary Museum’s exhibits (in Nagasaki) and Martin Scorsese’s film adaptation (2016), this chapter contributes to a more nuanced understanding of how the past can be used in the process of fiction being circulated around the world. By examining the literary museum’s visitor books and the Internet Movie Database’s film user reviews, I demonstrate how the iterations of Silence have gained cultural, religious, and political currency beyond historical facts, including personal identity affirmation and reflection on colonialism.