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Japanese Company with a Dutch owner; Who we are and what we do
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We started Deshima 404 years ago in Nagasaki
-Sorry; mistake: 402 years ago the Dutch ship "De Liefde" ship-wrecked on Japanese shores; the Dutch connection started from there on. The Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) started in 160
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We started Deshima 356 years ago
-Sorry; mistake: some 350 years ago the Japanese prepared this artificial island out of Nagasaki city for the Dutch.
They gave it the name "Deshima".
Deshima-isle was the only window to the outside world for about 250 yea
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We started our company 25 years ago
-These were the Nakasone-days: all of Japan was eagerly awaiting the goods from any abroads. Many performances in "import-fairs" in deparment-stores.
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We started our company 24 years ago
-that's about when Nagasaki Holland Village (1 windmill those days, the office with 6 desks was at the second floor of the same windmill) asked us to introduce some quality goods from Holland. We were quite successful; gave their shops big sales.
Our success became our failure: they started their own buying-subsidiary in Holland; threatened to revive an old VOC-cannon if we would ever set foot there ag
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We started our company 20 years ago
-That was when we changed our status to a Japanese Co. Ltd.; By then we got into the address and telephone-numbers that we still have today:
202-7, 3-18-34 Minami-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-0022, Japan Tel (81)3-3988-1740, Fax (81)3-3988-52
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We started our company 5 years ago
-That was when we started our restaurant; "Cafe Deshima".
Nowadays we organize cooking-events. and the rest of the work an expertise we earned during the years in Japan; import, export, event-agency, consultants