Why Were The Dutch Allowed In Japan?

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  @Mrrogerthurman · 9 days ago

  The answer is because the Dutch were good negotiators, they had many things the Japanese wanted such as medical know-how, and did not try to bully. The world's first bilingual dictionary was Dutch/Japanese.

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• PA

  @pacificostudios · 2 weeks ago

  More people should realize that the USA ironically dropped an A-Bomb on the greatest concentration of Catholics in Japan. A large church stood so close to the explosion that it was destroyed, creating a vision of what the USA would look like after a nuclear war.

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• TM

  @TMTFT · 7 days ago

  As a Dutch person I can say/confirm it was basically our pragmatism that got us into that postion, but then we became like that because we always have been a trade oriented culture. One thing many people overlook (at least, in my opinion) is that the Japanese also still respect us to this day because we never (really) abused the monopoly we had on Japanese trade. Truth be told, we probably also did that because of pragmatism, don&apos;t get too greedy and spoil the goose with the golden eggs ;) <br><br>Anyways, the respect we still get from the Japanese for our special shared history does make me proud as Japanese history &nbsp;has always intrigued me and I have a lot of respect for Japanese culture (however I&apos;m also still impressed by how brutal Japanese culture could be in the &apos;samurai era&apos;.)

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• TH

  @TheGijzzz · 11 days ago

  Yep we Dutch have had trade relations for centuries. The succes was because we Dutch separated the church from trade. We still respect the Japanese and our king and the Japanese emperor have visited recently.

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• AN

  @anangwisnu1519 · 12 days ago

  The Dutch did the same thing in Java and Nusantara Archipelago. The VOC didn&apos;t allow catholic missionaries even in their protectorate regions. They sent the missionaries to eastern region such as Ambon/ Maluku and Timor island.

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• NO

  @noodleswaprut4851 · 12 days ago

  Fun fact dutch here, we learned here that full invasion on japan was to costly to be profitable, mostly because Japan was an warrior country to raise amry against that was to costly. But japan had something we needed a lot &nbsp;for our south east indi company &nbsp;silver. And sliver was trade wear used as nowadays coins

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• YO

  @YouHaventSeenMeRight · 6 days ago

  Small correction: The Netherlands in this era, as it still has today (though we are now mostly agnostic/atheistic) had both Catholic and Protestant regions. It&apos;s just that the VOC didn&apos;t care for anything but profit. It is true that they had their headquarters in Amsterdam, which was in a Protestant region, but anyone was able to invest into the VOC as it was the first publicly traded company in the world.

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• JE

  @jensguld7271 · 12 days ago

  Because when the Japanese asked the Dutch if they were Christians, the Dutch answared truthfully that they were Dutch.

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• YO

  @YouHaventSeenMeRight · 6 days ago

  One detail to keep in mind, the VOC went bankrupt in 1799, so the trade between 1799 and 1854 was no longer done by the VOC, but by the Dutch Government (who acquired the VOC assets after it&apos;s bankruptcy), with American ships hired to do the trade under Dutch flags during the French occupation of The Netherland between 1800 and 1813.

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• РУ

  @Руссофобзатевающийрусофобию · 13 days ago

  Эти проповедники которые думали что они делают доброе дело на самом деле делали плохое дело.

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• MA

  @maverickfoxbm3 · 2 weeks ago

  In a Southern region of Japan near Nagasaki and Sasebo there’s an old Dutch Trading Post. It’s a museum and the old Dutch building is still there and William Adams burial site is there.

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• PO

  @Porto-i6f · 6 days ago

  The Dutch East India Company &nbsp;was actually a private entity owned by shareholders. All they wanted was profit.

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