Letter of the Week
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About Hirado Dutch Trading Post (平戸オランダ商館, Hirado Oranda shōkan) This building is a meticulous reconstruction of a 1639 warehouse that once stood in the Dutch Trading Post at Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture. The Japanese operations of the United East India Company were headquartered here before the Tokugawa government forced them to relocate to Dejima. The interior…
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I’m a lad who makes sense of the world in a, shall we say, idiosyncratic fashion. I’d happily trade my mental wiring for something more ordinary; that said, this is simply the way I’m designed. Dominus dedit, Dominus abstulit; sicut Domino placuit, ita factum est: sit nomen Domini benedictum.
Within striking distance 