The Beginning of Rapprochement between the Opposite Ends of the Eurasian Continent (Great Geographical Discoveries and Japan)

The theme of this article is the character of maritime European expansion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The trade and influences resulting from these early maritime contacts had proportionally a much greater effect on the limited population of Europe than on the huge masses of people and relatively stable societies of the major countries of Asia.
But the beginning of the seventeenth century found the Japanese participating more and more in Far eastern maritime-trading community and Japan’s naval strength was such regime of the Tokugawa could seriously contemplate the conquest of the Philippines.