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    Dejima (出島, Dejima? literally "protruding island"; Dutch: Desjima or Deshima, often latinised as Decima), was a fan-shaped artificial island in the bay of Nagasaki that was a ...

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Dejima, also Deshima, small artificial island in Nagasaki Harbor, Japan, western Kyūshū Island, part of Nagasaki Prefecture. Now lined by modern docks, the island was important as a Dutch trading post from 1641 to 1859, when Japan was otherwise closed to foreign trade.



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