Abstract / Excerpt:

Long before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores Japanese traders had been visiting the Nan-yo Islands in specially built ships called Go Shuin Sen or "ships with red seal." Professor S. Iwao of Tokyo Imperial University estimated that the number of Japanese residents living in the Southern Islands in the first three decades of the 17th century totalled about 10,000. On many occasions small group of Japanese fishermen had been driven by tropical storms and marooned on the northern coast of Luzon. At one time a few hundred Japanese sought refuge in Manila from religious persecution in their homeland. When Martin de Goite lay anchor in Manila Bay, he reported that there were about twenty Japanese settlers in Dilao, at the outskirt of Intramuros. Fifty years after the establishment of the Spanish colonial rule by Legaspi, an appreciable number of Japanese settlers estimated at 3,000 lived in Manila.

Even during the Tokugawa period when Japan was virtually isolated from the outside world, trade continued and as many as eleven voyages were made with the authorization of the shogunate officials.

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Holding Library	ADDU
Source Institution	Philippine Social Sciences & Humanities Review Vol. 23, Nos. 2-4
Authors	Serafin D. Quiason
Page Count	9
Place of Publication	Davao City
Original Publication Date	December 31, 1958
Tags	Colony, DAVAO CITY, Davao, Japan, Japanese, Japanese Colony

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