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, better known in Japan as, was an English navigator who, in 1600, became the first Englishman to reach Japan. He did so on a trading ship called De Liefde under the leadership of Jacob Quaeckernaeck; it was the only vessel reaching Japan from a five-ship expedition launched by a company of Rotterdam merchants (a voorcompagnie, or predecessor of the Dutch East India Company).... Wikipedia