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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 10594740, member: 2844&quot;]1853, when Japan was forced to open up to the US.</p><p>The Dutch had already been there for over two centuries, but they were the only Westerners to trade in Japan.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I posted this before, an interesting read the Dutch in Deshima, Japan:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejima" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejima" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejima</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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