Hakaru Hashimoto
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Hakaru Hashimoto was a Japanese doctor and medical scientist of the Meiji and Taishō periods. He is best known for publishing the first description of the disease that was later named Hashimoto's thyr
Hashimoto circa 1912
Hashimoto Street
Rangaku
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Rangaku, and by extension Yōgaku, is a body of knowledge developed by Japan through its contacts with the Dutch enclave of Dejima, which allowed Japan to keep abreast of Western technology and medicin
Hakaru Hashimoto
…lords for centuries. Hashimoto's grandfather, General Hashimoto, was the most famous physician in the prefecture in his time, after having studied Dutch medicine. Hashimoto began his primary education in 1886 and entered the Third High School in Kyoto, considered to be at the time a leading pre-university…
A meeting of Japan, China, and the West, Shiba Kōkan, late 18th century
Replica of an East Indiaman of the Dutch East India Company/United East Indies Company (VOC)
Account of Foreign Countries (増補華夷通商考, Zōho Kaitsū Shōkō), Nishikawa Joken, 1708. Tokyo National Museum
Painting by Kawahara Keiga: Arrival of a Dutch Ship. Philipp Franz von Siebold at Dejima with his Japanese wife Otaki and their baby daughter Ine observing a VOC ship in Nagasaki Bay using a telescope