Welcome to Japan400

Japan400 commemorates the start of diplomatic, trading, scientific and cultural relations between Britain and Japan in 1613. Through a host of exciting events during 2013, it celebrates the spirit of discovery and mutual regard that has inspired many successful collaborations and a remarkable friendship between two societies on opposite sides of the world.

Though separated by ten thousand leagues of clouds and waves, our territories are as it were close to each other –Tokugawa Ieyasu, letter to King James I, October 1613

The voyage to Japan

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