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Dejima

Dejima
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About Dejima

Dejima or Deshima, in the 17th century also called Tsukishima , was an artificial island off Nagasaki, Japan, that served as a trading post for the Portuguese (1570โ€“1639) and subsequently the Dutch (1641โ€“1858). For 220 years, it was the central conduit for foreign trade and cultural exchange with Japan during the isolationist Edo period (1600โ€“1869), and the only Japanese territory open to Westerners.

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If you were a member of the Dutch East India Company and you were trading, you would go to this created island called Dejima and you would kind of live on there, but you weren't allowed onto the main island and there was a bridge there with guards which would stop you from going over.

from 389: No Such Thing As A Semen Chest, 2021-09-03 at 00:22:23 ยท read transcript

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Coordinates: 32.7435, 129.8730

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