This crew included Jacob Quaeckernaeck, Melchior van Santvoort, Jan Joosten and William Adams.

When the Shimabara uprising of 1637 happened, in which Christian Japanese started a rebellion against the Tokugawa shogunate, it was crushed with the help of the Dutch.

As a result, all Christian nations who gave aid to the rebels were expelled, leaving the Dutch the only commercial partner from the West.

[3] Among the expelled nations was Portugal who had a trading post in Nagasaki harbor on an artificial island called Dejima.

The first of which was the ZM SS Soembing, a gift from King William III of the Netherlands, which was renamed the Kankō Maru.

Among the students at the Nagasaki Naval Training Center was Enomoto Takeaki, one of the founders of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

"[10] Increasingly positive relations were largely felt in the consumer electronics industry, where the Netherlands's Philips and Japan's Sony - both major electronics companies at the time - worked together in making several popular mass market technologies such as the compact disc (CD).