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Originally Posted by bababui
Wow..maybe the city of Nagasaki is paying tribute to the first two Euro nations that set up shop in Japan. The great novel Shogun deals with the Portuguese-Dutch rivalry as a sub-plot. It makes sense in this context.
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For example, I have no knowledge of any of this, so I can't possibly comment.
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Originally Posted by bababui
DOLA
Nagasaki was the only city that the Shogunite allowed Europeans to set up trading posts and visit.
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Ditto to this, I didn't know anything about it.