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> On 9/16/2016 12:43 PM, wrote:
> > In the past both Spain and Portugal were very important.
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> That would be true. The Portuguese were the first great explorers of the
> world. My guess is that a Portuguese sailor landed in Okinawa 600 or so
> years ago and proceeded to spread his seed around. This resulted in the
> Okinawans looking distinctly different from the Japanese - hairy and stocky.

500 years ago Portugal had extensive spice trade links with Japan,
plus Jesuit Catholic missions there. Nagasaki (city) was founded by the
Portuguese. (The Portuguese had established trade with East Africa,
India, Indonesia and China)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasa...modern_history

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