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    Who was the first European to visit Japan?

    Question #104843. Asked by author. (Apr 19 09 8:11 AM)


    Midget40

    		The first European contact by sea with Japan was made by the Portuguese for whom Vasco da Gama established the first trading post on the Indian sub-continent in 1511.

    It was from Goa that they began to trade with Cochin China (Vietnam) in 1540 and reached Japan in 1543.

    The first extended European mission to Japan was made by the Spanish Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier (later Saint Francis Xavier) who preached Christianity in Kagoshima from 1549 to 1551 before leaving to preach in China.

    http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1585


    Apr 19 09, 9:26 AM

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