Even more surprising is the list of Japanese words of Dutch origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Japanese_words_of_Dutch_origin https://en.wikipedi

Even more surprising is the list of Japanese words of Dutch origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Japanese_words_of_Dutch_origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Japanese_words_of_... The Dutch opportunistically arrived mostly after the Portuguese had been driven out by the Japanese, but still managed to leave the Japanese language with words like bīru, kapitan and madorosu. I'm sure these words would have come up during the Portuguese era as well.