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Japan–Portugal relations are the current and historical diplomatic, cultural and trade relations between Japan and Portugal.The history of relations between the two nations goes back to the mid-16th century, when Portuguese sailors first arrived in Japan in 1543, and diplomatic relations officially restarted in the 19th century with the Treaty of Peace, Amity and Commerce.
In 1541, 1542 or 1543 (sources differ) Portugal established contact with Japan. Japan was then involved in a long civil-war but since Ming China had officially cut relations with Japan meant that Portuguese merchants could serve as a profitable commercial intermediary between the two nations.
Thereafter, trade began between Portuguese Malacca, China and Japan, as the Portuguese took advantage of the Chinese trade embargo on Japan to act as middlemen between the two nations. In 1550, King John III of Portugal declared the Japanese trade a "crown monopoly", and henceforth, only ships authorized by Goa were
Fernão Mendes Pinto (1543, Portugal) Visited Japan and claimed to have introduced guns to the Japanese, though the account is almost certainly untrue. [1] Francis Xavier (1549, Spain (on Portuguese mission). The first Roman Catholic missionary who brought Christianity to Japan. [2] Cosme de Torres (1549, Spain).
Battle of Cagayan (1582) – A fleet of Asian pirates led by the Japanese attacked and was defeated by a Spanish flotilla. Nossa Senhora da Graça incident (1610) – A Japanese flotilla attacked a Portuguese carrack, which ended in the latter's sinking.
Nippo Jisho, or Vocabvlário of Lingoa of IAPAM was the first Japanese-Portuguese dictionary created and the first to translate Japanese into any Western language. It was published in Nagasaki (Japan) in 1603. It explains 32,000 Japanese words, translated into Portuguese.
Despite the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns in 1580 stipulating that Spain would not interfere with Portugal's colonial empire, Spanish-sponsored missionaries of the Franciscan Order viewed Portugal's success in Japan with jealousy and sought to disrupt the Jesuit monopoly in Japan. [5]
The Japan voyage (viagem do Japão in Portuguese) was a trade route established by the Portuguese from 1550 to 1639, linking Goa, then capital of the Portuguese India, to Japan. [1] This lucrative annual trip was carried out under monopoly of the Portuguese crown, and was in charge of a Captain general.